Generative social science studies in agent-based computational modeling - Epstein, Joshua M. (Princeton University Press, 2006)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Prelude to chapter 1 : the generativist manifesto -- - Ch. 1 - Agent-based computational models and generative social science - Joshua M. Epstein -- - Prelude to chapter 2 : confession of a wandering bark -- - Ch. 2 - Remarks on the foundations of agent-based generative social science - Joshua M. Epstein -- - Prelude to chapter 3 : equilibrium, explanation, and Gauss's tombstone -- - Ch. 3 - Non-explanatory equilibria : an extremely simple game with (mostly) unattainable fixed points - Joshua M. Epstein and Ross A. Hammond -- - Appendix to chapter 3 : large effect of a subtle rule change -- - Prelude to chapters 4-6 : generating civilizations : the 1050 project and the Artificial Anasazi Model -- - Ch. 4 - Understanding Anasazi culture change through agent-based modeling - Jeffrey S. Dean, George J. Gumerman, Joshua M. Epstein, Robert L. Axtell, Alan C. Swedlund, Miles T. Parker and Stephen McCarroll -- - Ch. 5
- Population growth and collapse in a multiagent model of the Kayenta Anasazi in Long House Valley - Robert L. Axtell, Joshua M. Epstein, Jeffrey S. Dean, George J. Gumerman, Alan C. Swedlund, Jason Harburger, Shubha Chakravarty, Ross Hammond, Jon Parker and Miles Parker -- - Ch. 6 - The evolution of social behavior in the prehistoric American southwest - George J. Gumerman, Alan C. Swedlund, Jeffrey S. Dean and Joshua M. Epstein -- - Prelude to chapter 7 : generating patterns in the timing of retirement -- - Ch. 7 - Coordination in transient social networks : an agent-based computational model of the timing of retirement - Robert L. Axtell and Joshua M. Epstein -- - Prelude to chapter 8 : generating classes without conquest -- - Ch. 8 - The emergence of classes in a multi-agent bargaining model - Robert L. Axtell, Joshua M. Epstein and H. Peyton Young -- - Prelude to chapter 9 : generating zones of cooperation in the prisoner's dilemma game -- - Ch. 9
- Zones of cooperation in demographic prisoner's dilemma - Joshua M. Epstein -- - Appendix to chapter 9 : generating norm maps in the demographic coordination game -- - Prelude to chapter 10 : generating thoughtless conformity to norms -- - Ch. 10 - Learning to be thoughtless : social norms and individual computation - Joshua M. Epstein -- - Prelude to chapter 11 : generating patterns of spontaneous civil violence -- - Ch. 11 - Modeling civil violence : an agent-based computational approach - Joshua M. Epstein -- - Prelude to chapter 12 : generating epidemic dynamics -- - Ch. 12 - Toward a containment strategy for smallpox bioterror : an individual-based computational approach - Joshua M. Epstein, Derek A. T. Cummings, Shubha Chakravarty, Ramesh M. Singha and Donald S. Burke -- - Prelude to chapter 13 : generating optimal organizations -- - Ch. 13 - Growing adaptive organizations : an agent-based computational approach - Joshua M. Epstein