Generative Social Science: Studies in Agent-Based Computational Modeling (Princeton Studies in Complexity) Export

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TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:1741300 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1741300 N2 - Agent-based computational modeling is changing the face of social science. In _Generative Social Science_, Joshua Epstein argues that this powerful, novel technique permits the social sciences to meet a fundamentally new standard of explanation, in which one "grows" the phenomenon of interest in an artificial society of interacting agents: heterogeneous, boundedly rational actors, represented as mathematical or software objects. After elaborating this notion of generative explanation in a pair of overarching foundational chapters, Epstein illustrates it with examples chosen from such far-flung fields as archaeology, civil conflict, the evolution of norms, epidemiology, retirement economics, spatial games, and organizational adaptation. In elegant chapter preludes, he explains how these widely diverse modeling studies support his sweeping case for generative explanation. This book represents a powerful consolidation of Epstein's interdisciplinary research activities in the decade since the publication of his and Robert Axtell's landmark volume, _Growing Artificial Societies_. Beautifully illustrated, _Generative Social Science_ includes a CD that contains animated movies of core model runs, and programs allowing users to easily change assumptions and explore models, making it an invaluable text for courses in modeling at all levels. SN - 0691125473 TI - Generative Social Science: Studies in Agent-Based Computational Modeling (Princeton Studies in Complexity) PB - Princeton University Press KW - actors KW - agents KW - complex_systems KW - socioecological_systems AU - Epstein, Joshua PY - 2007/01/08/ UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&path=ASIN/0691125473 ER -