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Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science from the Bottom Up
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A Brookings Institution Press and MIT Press publication How do social structures and group behaviors arise from the interaction of individuals? In this groundbreaking study, Joshua M. Epstein and Robert L. Axtell approach this age-old question with cutting-edge…
Controlling the Greenhouse Effect: Five Global Regimes Compared
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Roughly 30 percent of the solar radiation directed toward the earth is reflected directly back into outer space. The remaining 70 percent is absorbed by earth and re-emitted outward as long-wave—or infra-red—radiation. While transparent to incoming…
Measuring Military Power: The Soviet Air Threat to Europe
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Joshua M. Epstein argues that prevailing assumptions about the East- West balance of power rest on erroneous measures of military strength. He develops a method for analyzing military capabilities and applies that general procedure to the Soviet tactical air…
Agent_Zero: Toward Neurocognitive Foundations for Generative Social Science
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The Final Volume of the Groundbreaking Trilogy on Agent-Based Modeling In this pioneering synthesis, Joshua Epstein introduces a new theoretical entity: Agent_Zero . This software individual, or "agent," is endowed with distinct emotional/affective,…
Nonlinear Dynamics, Mathematical Biology, And Social Science: Wise Use Of Alternative Therapies
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These lectures develop simple models of complex social processes using nonlinear dynamics and mathematical biology. Dynamical analogies between seemingly disparate social and biological phenomena?revolutions and epidemics, arms races, and ecosystem dynamics?are…
The Calculus of Conventional War: Dynamic Analysis without Lanchester Theory
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Conventional forces absorb the preponderance of America's defense spending. Further, most experts believe the most likely path to nuclear war is through a failure of conventional defense. It is therefore critical that conventional military balances be assessed…
Generative Social Science: Studies in Agent-Based Computational Modeling
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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…