Complex adaptive systems : an introduction to computational models of social life / / John H. Miller and Scott E. Page.

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Superior document:Princeton studies in complexity
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Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
Series:Princeton studies in complexity.
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Physical Description:xix, 263 p. :; ill.
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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.