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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 systemsPublisher: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [1996]Copyright date: ©1996Description: xv, 208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0262050536
  • 9780262050531
  • 0262550253
  • 9780262550253
  • 0585033579
  • 9780585033570
Other title:
  • Social science from the bottom up
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 300 23
LOC classification:
  • H61 .E67 1996
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."--Publisher's website.
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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."--Title page.

Includes bibliographical references 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.

"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."--Publisher's website.

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