Title Simulating societies : the computer simulation of social phenomena / edited by Nigel Gilbert & Jim Doran

Published Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (321 pages) Series Routledge Library Editions: Artificial Intelligence ; volume 6 Routledge Library Editions: Artificial Intelligence ; v. 6 Contents Cover; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Contributors; Chapter 1 Simulating societies: an introduction; Chapter 2 Simulation of complex organizational processes: a review of methods and their epistemological foundations; Chapter 3 The evolution of technologies; Chapter 4 Simulating the emergence of social order from individual behaviour; Chapter 5 The architecture of society: stochastic simulation of urban movement; Chapter 6 Multi-agent simulation as a tool for studying emergent processes in societies Chapter 7 Simulating fishermen's societyChapter 8 Simulating prehistoric hunter-gatherer societies; Chapter 9 The EOS project: modelling Upper Palaeolithic social change; Chapter 10 Learning to co-operate using cultural algorithms; Chapter 11 The simulation of trade in oligopolistic markets; Chapter 12 Mind is not enough: the precognitive bases of social interaction; References; Index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Social sciences -- Simulation methods. Social sciences -- Methodology. PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology. Social sciences -- Methodology Social sciences -- Simulation methods Form Electronic book Author Gilbert, G. Nigel. Doran, Jim. ISBN 9781351165105 1351165100

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