Cellular discrete-event models for social systems

Understanding and predicting how people behave collectively is becoming crucial in many fields including marketing, military, psychology, anthropology, economics or epidemiology. Social simulation provides a useful tool to address this problem. Although numerous research works have been published, only a few have formally described the models used to represent the human behavior and the interaction between the individuals. The aim of this work is, from a practical point of view, to show how social simulation problems can be formally described under the Cell-DEVS formalism and to probe their functionality by showing results from them, implemented through the CD++ simulator.