Generative social science : studies in agent-based computational modeling

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.