Growing artificial societies

By: Epstein and AxtellMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: MIT Press, London 1996ISBN: 9780262550253DDC classification: H61
Contents:
I: Introduction II: Life and Death on the Sugarscape III: Sex, Culture, and Conflict: The Emergence of History IV: Sugar and Spice: Trade Comes to the Sugarscape V : Disease Processes VI: Conclusions
Summary: How do social structures and group behaviors arise from the interaction of individuals? Growing Artificial Societies approaches this question with cutting-edge computer simulation techniques. Fundamental collective behaviors such as group formation, cultural transmission, combat, and trade are seen to "emerge" from the interaction of individual agents following a few simple rules. In their program, named Sugarscape, Epstein and Axtell begin the development of a "bottom up" social science that is capturing the attention of researchers and commentators alike. The study is part of the 2050 Project, a joint venture of the Santa Fe Institute, the World Resources Institute, and the Brookings Institution. The project is an international effort to identify conditions for a sustainable global system in the next century and to design policies to help achieve such a system.
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I: Introduction
II: Life and Death on the Sugarscape
III: Sex, Culture, and Conflict: The Emergence of History
IV: Sugar and Spice: Trade Comes to the Sugarscape
V : Disease Processes
VI: Conclusions

How do social structures and group behaviors arise from the interaction of individuals? Growing Artificial Societies approaches this question with cutting-edge computer simulation techniques. Fundamental collective behaviors such as group formation, cultural transmission, combat, and trade are seen to "emerge" from the interaction of individual agents following a few simple rules.

In their program, named Sugarscape, Epstein and Axtell begin the development of a "bottom up" social science that is capturing the attention of researchers and commentators alike.

The study is part of the 2050 Project, a joint venture of the Santa Fe Institute, the World Resources Institute, and the Brookings Institution. The project is an international effort to identify conditions for a sustainable global system in the next century and to design policies to help achieve such a system.

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