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Author(s): John H. Miller; Scott Page
ISBN(s): 9781400835522, 1400835526
Edition: Course Book
File Details: PDF, 1.11 MB
Year: 2009
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1400835526 
ISBN 13: 9781400835522
Author: John H Miller, Scott Page

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 Systems focuses 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.

Complex Adaptive Systems An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life 1st Table of contents:

Part I: Introduction

  1. Introduction

  2. Complexity in Social Worlds

    • The Standing Ovation Problem

    • What’s the Buzz?

    • Stay Cool

    • Attack of the Killer Bees

    • Averaging Out Average Behavior

    • A Tale of Two Cities

    • Adding Complexity

    • New Directions

    • Complex Social Worlds Redux

    • Questioning Complexity

Part II: Preliminaries

  1. Modeling

    • Models as Maps

    • A More Formal Approach to Modeling

    • Modeling Complex Systems

    • Modeling Modeling

  2. On Emergence

    • A Theory of Emergence

    • Beyond Disorganized Complexity

    • Feedback and Organized Complexity

Part III: Computational Modeling

  1. Computation as Theory

    • Theory versus Tools

    • Physics Envy: A Pseudo-Freudian Analysis

    • Computation and Theory

    • Computation in Theory

    • Computation as Theory

    • Objections to Computation as Theory

  2. Why Agent-Based Objects?

    • Flexibility versus Precision

    • Process Oriented

    • Adaptive Agents

    • Inherently Dynamic

    • Heterogeneous Agents and Asymmetry

    • Scalability

    • Repeatable and Recoverable

    • Constructive

    • Low Cost

Part IV: Models of Complex Adaptive Social Systems

  1. A Basic Framework

    • The Eightfold Way

      • Right View

      • Right Intention

      • Right Speech

      • Right Action

      • Right Livelihood

      • Right Effort

      • Right Mindfulness

      • Right Concentration

  2. Smoke and Mirrors: The Forest Fire Model

    • A Simple Model of Forest Fires

    • Fixed, Homogeneous Rules

    • Homogeneous Adaptation

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