Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science From the Bottom Up (Complex Adaptive Systems)
by Epstein, Joshua M.,Axtell, Robert L
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"Growing Artificial Societies" is a milestone in social science research. It vividly demonstrates the potential of agent-based computer simulation to break disciplinary boundaries. It does this by analyzing in a unified framework the dynamic interactions of such diverse activities as trade, combat, mating, culture, and disease. It is an impressive achievement."
-- Robert Axelrod, University of Michigan How do social structures and group behaviors arise from the interaction of individuals? "Growing Artificial Societies" approaches this question with cutting-edge computer simulation techniques. Fundamental collective behaviors such as group formation, cultural transmission, combat, and trade are seen to "emerge" from the interaction of individual agents following a few simple rules.
In their program, named Sugarscape, Epstein and Axtell begin the development of a "bottom up" social science that is capturing the attention of researchers and commentators alike.
The study is part of the 2050 Project, a joint venture of the Santa Fe Institute, the World Resources Institute, and the Brookings Institution. The project is an international effort to identify conditions for a sustainable global system in the next century and to design policies to help achieve such a system.
"Growing Artificial Societies" is also available on CD-ROM, which includes about 50 animations that develop the scenarios described in the text.
"Copublished with the Brookings Institution
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- Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science From the Bottom Up (Complex Adaptive Systems)
- Author
- Epstein, Joshua M.,Axtell, Robert L
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- Trade Paperback
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- Used
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- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0262550253
- ISBN 13
- 9780262550253
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- Brookings Institution Press & MIT Press
- Place of Publication
- Washington And Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1996
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