Part I Introducing simulation in social studies of science and technology

1 Simulation: An introduction to the idea

Nigel Gilbert

2 Modelling science as an adaptive and self-organising social system: Concepts, theories and modelling tools

Jurgen Kluver

3 Computer simulations in science and technology studies

Petra Ahrweiler

Stefan Wormann

Part II Simulating the logic of discovery

4 Causation and discovery

Michael May

5 The discovery of the urea cycle: Computer models of scientific discovery

Gerd Grabhoff

6 Connecting disconnected structures: The modelling of scientific discovery in medical literature databases

Rein Vos

Floor Rikken

Part III Evolutionary models of science and technology

7 The evolution of technologies

Klaus G. Troitzsch

8 Simulating paradigm shifts using a lock-in model

Koen Frenken

Okke Verbart

9 SiSiFOS -- simulating studies on the internal formation and the organization of science

Petra Ahrweiler

Rolf Wolkenhauer

10 The self-organization of social systems: A simulation of the social construction of knowledge

Gunter Kuppers

11 Modelling Krohn and Kuppers' theory of science as a self-organizing system

Christina Stoica

Part IV Simulating conditions and dependencies of scientific work

12 Modelling creativity

Arthur I. Miller

13 Developing simulation models with policy relevance: The implications of recent UK reforms for emergent scientific disciplines

Paul Windrum

Chris Birchenhall

Contributors

References

Index