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Growing artificial societies : social science from the bottom up / Joshua M. Epstein, Robert Axtell.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Complex adaptive systemsPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, �1996.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 208 pages) : color illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262272360
  • 0262272369
  • 0585033579
  • 9780585033570
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Growing artificial societies.DDC classification:
  • 300 20
LOC classification:
  • H61 .E67 1996eb
NLM classification:
  • 300 E64g
Other classification:
  • 70.03
  • 71.40
  • MR 2200
  • QH 253
  • ST 300
Online resources:
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.
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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."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-202) and index.

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.

Print version record.

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.

English.

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