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Growing Artificial Societies - Social Science from the Bottom Up (Paperback, New) Loot Price: R862
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Growing Artificial Societies - Social Science from the Bottom Up (Paperback, New)

Joshua M Epstein, Robert L. Axtell

Series: Complex Adaptive Systems

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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.

"Copublished with the Brookings Institution"

General

Imprint: MIT Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Complex Adaptive Systems
Release date: October 1996
First published: October 1996
Authors: Joshua M Epstein • Robert L. Axtell (Professor and Chair)
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 208
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-55025-3
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology
Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > Behavioural theory (Behaviourism)
LSN: 0-262-55025-3
Barcode: 9780262550253

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