MIMOSE (Micro- und Multilevel Modelling Software)

Project Executive:

Prof. Dr. phil. Klaus G. Troitzsch

Project Associate:

Dr. rer. nat. Michael Möhring

The main purpose of the MIMOSE project was the development of a modelling language which considers special demands of modelling in social science, especially the description of nonlinear, quantitative and qualitative relations, stochastic influences, birth and death processes, as well as micro and multilevel models. At the same time, describing models in MIMOSE should not burden the modeler with a lot of programming and implementation details. Furthermore, the language concept support the development of structured, homogeneous simulation models, which improves the transparence of the ``model programming process'' and makes model descriptions and even the corresponding simulation results easier to understand. MIMOSE provides a powerful modelling language combined with a user friendly experimental frame for simulating and analysing models. Therefore, this approach can be seen as one step towards the development of more general modelling and simulation tools in social science.

Scientific Institution:

University of Koblenz-Landau, Computer Science Department, Institute of Computer Applications in the Social Sciences

DFG

January 1986

ongoing

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