Artificial societies the computer simulation of social life
An exploration of the implications of developments in artificial intelligence for social scientific research, which builds on the theoretical and methodological insights provided by ""Simulating societies"".; This book is intended for worldwide library market for social science s...
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London :
Taylor & Francis
1995
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Table of Contents:
- Book Cover; Book Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Notes on contributors; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 A model of the emergence of new political actors; Chapter 3 Division of labour and social co-ordination modes: a simple simulation model; Chapter 4 Emergence of kinship structures: a multi-agent approach; Chapter 5 Cities can be agents too: a model for the evolution of settlement systems; Chapter 6 The EOS project: integrating two models of Palaeolithic social change
- Chapter 7 Genetic algorithms, teleological conservatism, and the emergence of optimal demand relations: the case of learning-by-consumingChapter 8 Emergence in social simulation; Chapter 9 How to invent a lexicon: the development of shared symbols in interaction; Chapter 10 MANTA: new experimental results on the emergence of (artificial) ant societies; Chapter 11 Emergent behaviour in societies of heterogeneous, interacting agents: alliances and norms; Chapter 12 Kin-directed altruism and attachment behaviour in an evolving population of neural networks
- Chapter 13 Understanding the functions of norms in social groups through simulationChapter 14 A logical approach to simulating societies; Bibliography; Index
