Complex adaptive systems
Subtitle: an introduction to computational models of social life / John H. Miller and Scott E. Page.
Contributors: Page, Scott E.
Series: Princeton studies in complexity
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Princeton, New Jersey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780691130965; 9780691127026
Subjects: Social systems -- Mathematical models.; Social sciences -- Mathematical models.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-260) and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. INTRODUCTION. Introduction; title: Complexity in social worlds; title: Pt. 2. PRELIMINARIES. Modeling; title: On emergence; title: Pt. 3. COMPUTATIONAL MODELING. Computation as theory; title: Why agent-based objects?; title: Pt. 4. MODELS OF COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SOCIAL SYSTEMS. A basic framework; title: Complex adaptive social systems in one dimension; title: Social dynamics; title: Evolving automata; title: Some fundamentals of organizational decision making; title: Pt. 5. CONCLUSIONS. Social science in between; title: Epilogue; title: Appendixes. A. An open agenda for complex adaptive social systems; title: B. Practices for computational modeling.