Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science from the Bottom UpBrookings Institution Press, 11 de out. de 1996 - 208 páginas ""Growing Artificial Societies" is a milestone in social science research. It vividly demonstrates the potential of agent-based computer simulation to break disciplinary boundaries. It does this by analyzing in a unified framework the dynamic interactions of such diverse activities as trade, combat, mating, culture, and disease. It is an impressive achievement." -- Robert Axelrod, University of Michigan 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. "Growing Artificial Societies" is also available on CD-ROM, which includes about 50 animations that develop the scenarios described in the text. "Copublished with the Brookings Institution" |
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... 37 Migration 42 Summary 51 III . Sex , Culture , and Conflict : The Emergence of History Sexual Reproduction 55 Cultural Processes 71 Combat 82 The Proto - History 92 1 21 54 IV . Sugar and Spice : Trade Comes to the ix.
... Processes 138 Models of Disease Transmission and Immune Response 138 Immune System Response 140 Disease Transmission 145 Digital Diseases on the Sugarscape 147 Disease Transmission Networks 150 VI . Conclusions Summary 153 Some ...
... processes are complex . They are not neatly decomposable into separate subprocesses - economic , demographic , cultural , spatial - whose isolat- ed analyses can be aggregated to give an adequate analysis of the social process as a ...
... processes . While such models can offer powerful insights , they " filter out " all consequences of heterogeneity . Few social scientists would deny that these consequences can be crucially important , but there has been no natural ...
... processes of combat , cultural exchange , and disease transmission , a vast panoply of " possible histories , " including our proto - history , is realized on the sugarscape . It is possible to observe evolutionary processes as they ...
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Life and Death on the Sugarscape | 21 |
The Agents | 23 |
Artificial Society on the Sugarscape | 26 |
Wealth and Its Distribution in the Agent Population | 32 |
Social Networks of Neighbors | 37 |
Migration | 42 |
Summary | 51 |
Sex Culture and Conflict The Emergence of History | 54 |
Summary and Conclusions | 136 |
Disease Processes | 138 |
Immune System Response | 140 |
Disease Transmission | 145 |
Digital Diseases on the Sugarscape | 147 |
Disease Transmission Networks | 150 |
Conclusions | 153 |
Some Extensions of the Current Model | 162 |
Sexual Reproduction | 55 |
Cultural Processes | 71 |
Combat | 82 |
The ProtoHistory | 92 |
Sugar and Spice Trade Comes to the Sugarscape | 94 |
A Second Commodity | 96 |
Trade Rules | 101 |
Markets of Bilateral Traders | 108 |
Emergent Economic Networks | 130 |
Social Computation Emergent Computation | 133 |
Other Artificial Societies | 165 |
Formal Analysis of Artificial Societies | 176 |
Generative Social Science | 177 |
Looking Ahead | 178 |
Software Engineering Aspects of Artificial Societies | 179 |
Summary of Rule Notation | 182 |
StateDependence of the Welfare Function | 186 |
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