Dynamics in human and primate societies : agent-based modeling of social and spatial processes /

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Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Description:xiii, 398 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Santa Fe Institute studies in the sciences of complexity
Proceedings volume in the Santa Fe Institute studies in the sciences of complexity.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4212095
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Other authors / contributors:Kohler, Timothy A.
Gumerman, George J.
ISBN:0195131673 (cloth :alk. paper)
0195131681 (paper : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • 1. Putting Social Sciences Together Again: An Introduction to the Volume
  • 2. Nonlinear and Synthetic Models for Primate Societies
  • 3. The Evolution of Cooperation in an Ecological Context: An Agent-Based Model
  • 4. Evolution of Interference
  • 5. Trajectories to Complexity in Artificial Societies: Rationality, Belief, and Emotions
  • 6. MAGICAL Computer Simulation of Mesolithic Foraging
  • 7. Be There Then: A Modeling Approach to Settlement Determinants and Spatial Efficiency among Late Ancestral Pueblo Populations of the Mesa Verde Region, U.S. Southwest
  • 8. Understanding Anasazi Culture Change through Agent-Based Modeling
  • 9. Anti-Chaos, Common Property, and the Emergence of Cooperation
  • 10. The Political Impact of Marriage in a Virtual Polynesian Society
  • 11. The Impact of Raiding on Settlement Patterns in the Northern Valley of Oaxaca: An Approach Using Decision Trees
  • 12. The Fractal House of Pharaoh: Ancient Egypt as a Complex Adaptive System, a Trial Formulation
  • 13. Modeling Sociality: The View from Europe
  • 14. Agent-Based Modeling of Small-Scale Societies: State of the Art and Future Prospects
  • Index