Complex adaptive systems an introduction to computational models of social life.

This book provides the first clear, comprehensive, and accessible account of complex adaptive social systems, by two of the field's leading authorities. Such systems--whether political parties, stock markets, or ant colonies--present some of the most intriguing theoretical and practical challen...

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Hauptverfasser: Miller, John H, Page, Scott E
Format: E-Book Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Princeton, N.J Princeton University Press 2007
Princeton Univ. Press
Ausgabe:STU - Student edition
Schriftenreihe:Princeton Studies in Complexity
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ISBN:9780691127026, 0691130965, 9780691130965, 0691127026, 9781400835522, 1400835526
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Zusammenfassung:This book provides the first clear, comprehensive, and accessible account of complex adaptive social systems, by two of the field's leading authorities. Such systems--whether political parties, stock markets, or ant colonies--present some of the most intriguing theoretical and practical challenges confronting the social sciences. Engagingly written, and balancing technical detail with intuitive explanations,Complex Adaptive Systemsfocuses on the key tools and ideas that have emerged in the field since the mid-1990s, as well as the techniques needed to investigate such systems. It provides a detailed introduction to concepts such as emergence, self-organized criticality, automata, networks, diversity, adaptation, and feedback. It also demonstrates how complex adaptive systems can be explored using methods ranging from mathematics to computational models of adaptive agents. John Miller and Scott Page show how to combine ideas from economics, political science, biology, physics, and computer science to illuminate topics in organization, adaptation, decentralization, and robustness. They also demonstrate how the usual extremes used in modeling can be fruitfully transcended.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-260) and index
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ISBN:9780691127026
0691130965
9780691130965
0691127026
9781400835522
1400835526
DOI:10.1515/9781400835522