Description |
1 online resource (xv, 208 pages) : color illustrations |
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Complex adaptive systems |
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Complex adaptive systems.
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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 |
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"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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Print version record |
Subject |
Social sciences.
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Social Sciences
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social sciences.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
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Social sciences
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Computersimulation
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Kollektives Verhalten
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Soziales System
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Sozialwissenschaften
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Sociale stelsels.
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Computersimulaties.
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Computermodellen.
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Sciences sociales.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Axtell, Robert
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2050 Project.
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LC no. |
96025332 |
ISBN |
9780262272360 |
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0262272369 |
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0585033579 |
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9780585033570 |
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