Valery Makarov

Given a short survey of the social simulation, how it is considered in the modern literature. Focused on agent-based models, where members of a human society play the role of the agents. To illustrate this there is a number of examples, taken from the CEMI publications and the other sources. Special attention paid to the precise formulation of such notions as trust, irrationality, fear etc. Given the mathematic description notion “power”, “freedom”; shown the ways to its qualitative measure.