Generative Social Science : : Studies in Agent-Based Computational Modeling /

Generative Social Science : : Studies in Agent-Based Computational Modeling / / Joshua M. Epstein.

Agent-based computational modeling is changing the face of social science. In Generative Social Science, Joshua Epstein argues that this powerful, novel technique permits the social sciences to meet a fundamentally new standard of explanation, in which one "grows" the phenomenon of interes...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Epstein, Joshua M.,
MitwirkendeR:
Axtell, Robert L.,
Burke, Donald S.,
Chakravarty, Shubha,
Cummings, Derek A. T.,
Dean, Jeffrey S.,
Epstein, Joshua M.,
Gumerman, George J.,
Hammond, Ross A.,
Hammond, Ross,
Harburger, Jason,
Mccarroll, Stephen,
Parker, Jon,
Parker, Miles T.,
Parker, Miles,
Singha, Ramesh M.,
Swedlund, Alan C.,
Young, H. Peyton,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012]
©2007
Year of Publication:2012
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Studies in Complexity ; 21
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.) :; 68 color plates. 2 halftones. 51 line illus. 23 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Prelude to Chapter 1. THE GENERATIVIST MANIFESTO
  • Chapter 1. AGENT-BASED COMPUTATIONAL MODELS AND GENERATIVE SOCIAL SCIENCE
  • Prelude to Chapter 2. CONFESSION OF A WANDERING BARK
  • Chapter 2. REMARKS ON THE FOUNDATIONS OF AGENT-BASED GENERATIVE SOCIAL SCIENCE
  • Prelude to Chapter 3. EQUILIBRIUM, EXPLANATION, AND GAUSS'S TOMBSTONE
  • Chapter 3. NON-EXPLANATORY EQUILIBRIA: AN EXTREMELY SIMPLE GAME WITH (MOSTLY) UNATTAINABLE FIXED POINTS
  • Appendix to Chapter 3. LARGE EFFECT OF A SUBTLE RULE CHANGE
  • Prelude to Chapters 4-6. GENERATING CIVILIZATIONS: THE 1050 PROJECT AND THE ARTIFICIAL ANASAZI MODEL
  • Chapter 4. UNDERSTANDING ANASAZI CULTURE CHANGE THROUGH AGENT-BASED MODELING
  • Chapter 5. POPULATION GROWTH AND COLLAPSE IN A MULTIAGENT MODEL OF THE KAYENTA ANASAZI IN LONG HOUSE VALLEY
  • Chapter 6. THE EVOLUTION OF SOCIAL BEHAVIOR IN THE PREHISTORIC AMERICAN SOUTHWEST
  • Prelude to Chapter 7. GENERATING PATTERNS IN THE TIMING OF RETIREMENT
  • Chapter 7. COORDINATION IN TRANSIENT SOCIAL NETWORKS: AN AGENT-BASED COMPUTATIONAL MODEL OF THE TIMING OF RETIREMENT
  • Prelude to Chapter 8. GENERATING CLASSES WITHOUT CONQUEST
  • Chapter 8. THE EMERGENCE OF CLASSES IN A MULTI-AGENT BARGAINING MODEL
  • Prelude to Chapter 9. GENERATING ZONES OF COOPERATION IN THE PRISONER'S DILEMMA GAME
  • Chapter 9. ZONES OF COOPERATION IN DEMOGRAPHIC PRISONER'S DILEMMA
  • Appendix to Chapter 9. GENERATING NORM MAPS IN THE DEMOGRAPHIC COORDINATION GAME
  • Prelude to Chapter 10. GENERATING THOUGHTLESS CONFORMITY TO NORMS
  • Chapter 10. LEARNING TO BE THOUGHTLESS: SOCIAL NORMS AND INDIVIDUAL COMPUTATION
  • Prelude to Chapter 11. GENERATING PATTERNS OF SPONTANEOUS CIVIL VIOLENCE
  • Chapter 11. MODELING CIVIL VIOLENCE: AN AGENT-BASED COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH
  • Prelude to Chapter 12. GENERATING EPIDEMIC DYNAMICS
  • Chapter 12. TOWARD A CONTAINMENT STRATEGY FOR SMALLPOX BIOTERROR: AN INDIVIDUAL-BASED COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH
  • Prelude to Chapter 13. GENERATING OPTIMAL ORGANIZATIONS
  • Chapter 13. GROWING ADAPTIVE ORGANIZATIONS: AN AGENT-BASED COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH
  • CODA
  • INDEX

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