Growing Artificial Societies (eBook)

Social Science from the Bottom Up

Robert L. Axtell, Joshua M. Epstein (Autoren)

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1996
224 Seiten
The MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-27236-0 (ISBN)

Infos

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 "e;emerge"e; from the interaction of individual agents following a few simple rules.In their program, named Sugarscape, Epstein and Axtell begin the development of a "e;bottom up"e; 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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.10.1996
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 0-262-27236-9 / 0262272369
• ISBN-13: 978-0-262-27236-0 / 9780262272360