Complex adaptive systems : an introduction to computational models of social life /
Miller, John H. 1959-
Complex adaptive systems : an introduction to computational models of social life / John H. Miller and Scott E. Page. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007. - xix, 263 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Princeton studies in complexity. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-260) and index.
pt. 1. INTRODUCTION. Introduction -- Complexity in social worlds -- pt. 2. PRELIMINARIES. Modeling -- On emergence -- pt. 3. COMPUTATIONAL MODELING. Computation as theory -- Why agent-based objects? -- pt. 4. MODELS OF COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SOCIAL SYSTEMS. A basic framework -- Complex adaptive social systems in one dimension -- Social dynamics -- Evolving automata -- Some fundamentals of organizational decision making -- pt. 5. CONCLUSIONS. Social science in between -- Epilogue -- Appendixes. A. An open agenda for complex adaptive social systems -- B. Practices for computational modeling.
9780691127026 (pbk.: acidfree paper)
2006933230
Social systems--Mathematical models.
Social sciences--Mathematical models.
Sociale relaties.
Computermodellen.
300.1/513
Complex adaptive systems : an introduction to computational models of social life / John H. Miller and Scott E. Page. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007. - xix, 263 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Princeton studies in complexity. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-260) and index.
pt. 1. INTRODUCTION. Introduction -- Complexity in social worlds -- pt. 2. PRELIMINARIES. Modeling -- On emergence -- pt. 3. COMPUTATIONAL MODELING. Computation as theory -- Why agent-based objects? -- pt. 4. MODELS OF COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SOCIAL SYSTEMS. A basic framework -- Complex adaptive social systems in one dimension -- Social dynamics -- Evolving automata -- Some fundamentals of organizational decision making -- pt. 5. CONCLUSIONS. Social science in between -- Epilogue -- Appendixes. A. An open agenda for complex adaptive social systems -- B. Practices for computational modeling.
9780691127026 (pbk.: acidfree paper)
2006933230
Social systems--Mathematical models.
Social sciences--Mathematical models.
Sociale relaties.
Computermodellen.
300.1/513