Generative Social Science
Joshua M. Epstein
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Princeton : : Princeton University Press, , 2012.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (379 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Prelude to Chapter 1: The Generativist Manifesto; Chapter 1: Agent-Based Computational Models and Generative Social Science; Prelude to Chapter 2: Confession of a Wandering Bark; Chapter 2: Remarks on the Foundations of Agent-Based Generative Social Science; Prelude to Chapter 3: Equilibrium; Chapter 3: Non-Explanatory Equilibria: An Extremely Simple Game with (Mostly) Unattainable Fixed Points; Appendix to Chapter 3: Large Effect of a Subtle Rule Change. - Chapter 11: Modeling Civil Violence: An Agent-Based Computational ApproachPrelude to Chapter 12: Generating Epidemic Dynamics; Chapter 12: Toward a Containment Strategy for Smallpox Bioterror: An Individual-Based Computational Approach; Prelude to Chapter 13: Generating Optimal Organizations; Chapter 13: Growing Adaptive Organizations: An Agent-Based Computational Approach; Coda; Index. - Prelude to Chapter 8: Generating Classes without ConquestChapter 8: The Emergence of Classes in a Multi-Agent Bargaining Model; Prelude to Chapter 9: Generating Zones of Cooperation in the Prisoner's Dilemma Game; Chapter 9: Zones of Cooperation in Demographic Prisoner's Dilemma; Appendix to Chapter 9: Generating Norm Maps in the Demographic Coordination Game; Prelude to Chapter 10: Generating Thoughtless Conformity to Norms; Chapter 10: Learning to be Thoughtless: Social Norms and Individual Computation; Prelude to Chapter 11: Generating Patterns of Spontaneous Civil Violence. - Prelude to Chapters 4-6: Generating Civilizations: The 1050 Project and the Artificial Anasazi ModelChapter 4: Understanding Anasazi Culture Change through Agent-Based Modeling; Chapter 5: Population Growth and Collapse in a Multiagent Model of the Kayenta Anasazi in Long House Valley; Chapter 6: The Evolution of Social Behavior in the Prehistoric American Southwest; Prelude to Chapter 7: Generating Patterns in the Timing of Retirement; Chapter 7: Coordination in Transient Social Networks: An Agent-Based Computational Model of the Timing of Retirement. - 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
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| Emner | Social sciences - Computer simulation
Social sciences - Mathematical models Mathematics. Social Sciences - General samfunnsvitenskap datasimuleringer systemteori matematiske modeller |
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| ISBN | 0691125473. - 9780691125473
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