Complex adaptive systems an introduction to computational models of social life /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Miller, John H. (John Howard), 1959-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Page, Scott E.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007.
Series:Princeton studies in complexity.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. INTRODUCTION. Introduction
  • Complexity in social worlds
  • pt. 2. PRELIMINARIES. Modeling
  • On emergence
  • pt. 3. COMPUTATIONAL MODELING. Computation as theory
  • Why agent-based objects?
  • pt. 4. MODELS OF COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SOCIAL SYSTEMS. A basic framework
  • Complex adaptive social systems in one dimension
  • Social dynamics
  • Evolving automata
  • Some fundamentals of organizational decision making
  • pt. 5. CONCLUSIONS. Social science in between
  • Epilogue
  • Appendixes. A. An open agenda for complex adaptive social systems
  • B. Practices for computational modeling.