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Author Epstein, Joshua M., 1951-

Title Growing artificial societies : social science from the bottom up / Joshua M. Epstein, Robert Axtell
Published Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©1996

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 208 pages) : color illustrations
Series Complex adaptive systems
Complex adaptive systems.
Contents Acknowledgments -- I. Introduction -- II. Life and Death on the Sugarscape -- III. Sex, Culture, and Conflict: The Emergence of History -- IV. Sugar and Spice: Trade Comes to the Sugarscape -- V. Disease Processes -- VI. Conclusions -- Appendixes -- References -- Index
Summary 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
Analysis COMPUTER SCIENCE/General
Notes "A product of the 2050 Project, a collaborative effort of the Brookings Institution, the Santa Fe Institute and the World Resources Institute."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-202) and index
Notes English
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Subject Social sciences.
Social Sciences
social sciences.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
Social sciences
Computersimulation
Kollektives Verhalten
Soziales System
Sozialwissenschaften
Sociale stelsels.
Computersimulaties.
Computermodellen.
Sciences sociales.
Form Electronic book
Author Axtell, Robert
2050 Project.
LC no. 96025332
ISBN 9780262272360
0262272369
0585033579
9780585033570