Share
Blog
Print
Email
BookmarkThis book provides the first clear, comprehensive, and accessible account of complex adaptive social systems, by two of the field's leading authorities.
See also:
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..
For more information about the title Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life (Princeton Studies in Complexity), read the full description at Amazon.com, or see the following related books:
An Introduction to Systems Biology: Design Principles of Biological Circuits (Chapman & Hall/Crc Mathematical and Computational Biology Series) — Thorough and accessible, this book presents the design principles of biological systems, and highlights the recurring circuit elements that make up ... > read more
An Introduction to Game Theory — Game-theoretic reasoning pervades economic theory and is used widely in other social and behavioral sciences. An Introduction to Game Theory, by ... > read more
Modern Digital and Analog Communication Systems (The Oxford Series in Electrical and Computer Engineering) — Lathi's trademark user-friendly and highly readable text presents a complete and modern treatment of communication systems. It begins by introducing ... > read more
An Introduction to Bioinformatics Algorithms (Computational Molecular Biology) — This introductory text offers a clear exposition of the algorithmic principles driving advances in bioinformatics. Accessible to students in both ... > read more
