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Generative social science: studies in agent-based computational modeling.

2006 Princeton University Press ;ISBN: 0691125473 ;ISBN: 9780691125473 ;ISBN: 9781400842872 ;ISBN: 1400842875 ;EISBN: 9781400842872 ;EISBN: 1400842875 ;DOI: 10.1515/9781400842872 ;OCLC: 769343157 ;LCCallNum: H61.3

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  • Title:
    Generative social science: studies in agent-based computational modeling.
  • Author: Epstein, Joshua M ; Epstein, Joshua M
  • Subjects: Computer simulation ; Computers ; Economics ; Mathematical models ; Mathematics ; Modelling ; Simulation ; Social sciences
  • Description: 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.
  • Publisher: Princeton: Princeton University Press
  • Creation Date: 2011
  • Format: 378
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 0691125473
    ISBN: 9780691125473
    ISBN: 9781400842872
    ISBN: 1400842875
    EISBN: 9781400842872
    EISBN: 1400842875
    DOI: 10.1515/9781400842872
    OCLC: 769343157
    LCCallNum: H61.3
  • Source: ScholarVox International
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