Generative Social Science: Studies in Agent-Based Computational Modeling [With CDROM]

by Joshua M. Epstein

Book Overview

Agent-based computational modeling is changing the face of social science. In Generative Social Science, Joshua Epstein argues that this powerful, novel technique permits the social sciences to meet a fundamentally new standard of explanation, in which one grows the phenomenon of interest in an artificial society of interacting agents: heterogeneous, boundedly rational actors, represented as mathematical or software objects. After elaborating...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691125473
• ISBN13: 9780691125473
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.6"