Keywords: computational social science, complexity science, computational statistics, data science
The interdisciplinary field of Computational Social Science (CSS) has roots in the 1950s, like most other fields of computational science. However, it in the 1990s that the field nucleated with a more coherent paradigm, at several universities in the United States and Europe, and soon after it diffused to Asia and Latin America. Today the field has rich theoretical and methodological foundations, provided by Herbert A. Simon, John Holland, and some of their contemporaries. This talk will relate CSS to contemporary trends in computational and data sciences and highlight scientific needs, opportunities, and prospects.