Generative social science
Subtitle: studies in agent-based computational modeling
By: Joshua M. Epstein.
Series: Princeton studies in complexity
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780691125473
Subjects: Social sciences -- Computer simulation; Social sciences -- Mathematical models
Description: Agent-based computational modeling is changing the face of social science. This book argues that this powerful technique permits the social sciences to meet an explanation, in which one 'grows' the phenomenon of interest in an artificial society of interacting agents: heterogeneous, boundedly rational actors.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.