Ebook: Simulating Social Phenomena

In this book experts from quite different fields present simulations of social phenomena: economists, sociologists, political scientists, psychologists, cognitive scientists, organisational scientists, decision scientists, geographers, computer scientists, AI and AL scientists, mathematicians and statisticians. They simulate markets, organisations, economic dynamics, coalition formation, the emergence of cooperation and exchange, bargaining, decision making, learning, and adaptation. The history, problems, and perspectives of simulating social phenomena are explicitly discussed.

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In this book experts from quite different fields present simulations of social phenomena: economists, sociologists, political scientists, psychologists, cognitive scientists, organisational scientists, decision scientists, geographers, computer scientists, AI and AL scientists, mathematicians and statisticians. They simulate markets, organisations, economic dynamics, coalition formation, the emergence of cooperation and exchange, bargaining, decision making, learning, and adaptation. The history, problems, and perspectives of simulating social phenomena are explicitly discussed.

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In this book experts from quite different fields present simulations of social phenomena: economists, sociologists, political scientists, psychologists, cognitive scientists, organisational scientists, decision scientists, geographers, computer scientists, AI and AL scientists, mathematicians and statisticians. They simulate markets, organisations, economic dynamics, coalition formation, the emergence of cooperation and exchange, bargaining, decision making, learning, and adaptation. The history, problems, and perspectives of simulating social phenomena are explicitly discussed.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-VIII
Introduction: Social Simulation — A New Disciplinary Synthesis....Pages 1-17
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Advancing the Art of Simulation in the Social Sciences....Pages 21-40
Social Science Simulation — Origins, Prospects, Purposes....Pages 41-54
Can Agents Cover All the World?....Pages 55-72
A Laboratory for Agent Based Computational Economics: The Self-development of Consistency in Agents’ Behaviour....Pages 73-88
From the Margin to the Mainstream: An Agenda for Computer Simulations in the Social Sciences....Pages 89-95
Computer Simulated Empirical Tests of Social Theory: Lessons from 15 Years’ Experience....Pages 97-102
Modelling a Society of Simple Agents: From Conceptual Specification to Experimentation....Pages 103-109
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
Bargaining Between Automata....Pages 113-132
What to Do With a Surplus....Pages 133-151
Spatially Coevolving Automata Play the Repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma....Pages 153-159
A Spatial Iterated Prisoners Dilemma Game Simulation With Movement....Pages 161-167
Cooperation as Illusory Hill-climbing: Co-adaptation and Search in Social Dilemmas....Pages 169-178
Cooperation Without Memory....Pages 179-185
Tributes or Norms? The Context-dependent Rationality of Social Control....Pages 187-193
In What Kinds of Social Groups can “Altruistic” Behaviors Evolve?....Pages 195-201
Global vs Local Social Search in the Formation of Coalitions....Pages 203-209
Exchange and Challenge in Collective Decision Making....Pages 211-217
Front Matter....Pages 219-219
Market Organisation....Pages 221-240
Market Organizations for Controlling Smart Matter....Pages 241-257
Front Matter....Pages 219-219
Personnel Policies, Long Term Unemployment and Growth. An Evolutionary Model....Pages 259-278
Agent-Based Keynesian Economics....Pages 279-285
An Evolutionary Approach to Structural Economic Dynamics....Pages 287-293
Macroeconomic Interdependence and Frequency Locking....Pages 295-301
Organizational Actors and the Need for a Flexible World Representation....Pages 303-309
Concurrency and the Logic of Economic Organization....Pages 311-317
Models and Scenarios for European Freight Transport Based on Neural Networks and Logit Analysis....Pages 319-325
An Evolutionary Urban Cellular Automata: The Model and Some First Simulations....Pages 327-333
Simulating Multiparty Systems....Pages 335-341
Front Matter....Pages 343-343
Co-ordination and Specialisation....Pages 345-364
Modelling Meta-Memes....Pages 365-384
Innovation and Imitation as Competitive Strategies: Revisiting a Simulation Approach....Pages 385-400
A Simulation of Adaptation Mechanisms in Budgetary Decision Making....Pages 401-418
Searching for the Next Best Mate....Pages 419-436
Adaptive Artificial Agents Play a Finitely Repeated Discrete Principal-Agent Game....Pages 437-456
Foreknowledge in Artificial Societies....Pages 457-469
Would and Should Government Lie about Economic Statistics: Understanding Opinion Formation Processes through Evolutionary Cellular Automata....Pages 471-490
Front Matter....Pages 491-491
Simulation for Statistical Inference in Dynamic Network Models....Pages 493-512
Permutation Techniques for Testing Homogeneity of Social Groups From Questionnaire Results....Pages 513-519
Sketching LifePaths: A New Framework for Socio-Economic Statistics....Pages 521-527
Back Matter....Pages 536-536
New Goods and the Measurement of Real Economic Growth: Summary Results Using the XEcon Experimental Economy....Pages 529-535

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In this book experts from quite different fields present simulations of social phenomena: economists, sociologists, political scientists, psychologists, cognitive scientists, organisational scientists, decision scientists, geographers, computer scientists, AI and AL scientists, mathematicians and statisticians. They simulate markets, organisations, economic dynamics, coalition formation, the emergence of cooperation and exchange, bargaining, decision making, learning, and adaptation. The history, problems, and perspectives of simulating social phenomena are explicitly discussed.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-VIII
Introduction: Social Simulation — A New Disciplinary Synthesis....Pages 1-17
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Advancing the Art of Simulation in the Social Sciences....Pages 21-40
Social Science Simulation — Origins, Prospects, Purposes....Pages 41-54
Can Agents Cover All the World?....Pages 55-72
A Laboratory for Agent Based Computational Economics: The Self-development of Consistency in Agents’ Behaviour....Pages 73-88
From the Margin to the Mainstream: An Agenda for Computer Simulations in the Social Sciences....Pages 89-95
Computer Simulated Empirical Tests of Social Theory: Lessons from 15 Years’ Experience....Pages 97-102
Modelling a Society of Simple Agents: From Conceptual Specification to Experimentation....Pages 103-109
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
Bargaining Between Automata....Pages 113-132
What to Do With a Surplus....Pages 133-151
Spatially Coevolving Automata Play the Repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma....Pages 153-159
A Spatial Iterated Prisoners Dilemma Game Simulation With Movement....Pages 161-167
Cooperation as Illusory Hill-climbing: Co-adaptation and Search in Social Dilemmas....Pages 169-178
Cooperation Without Memory....Pages 179-185
Tributes or Norms? The Context-dependent Rationality of Social Control....Pages 187-193
In What Kinds of Social Groups can “Altruistic” Behaviors Evolve?....Pages 195-201
Global vs Local Social Search in the Formation of Coalitions....Pages 203-209
Exchange and Challenge in Collective Decision Making....Pages 211-217
Front Matter....Pages 219-219
Market Organisation....Pages 221-240
Market Organizations for Controlling Smart Matter....Pages 241-257
Front Matter....Pages 219-219
Personnel Policies, Long Term Unemployment and Growth. An Evolutionary Model....Pages 259-278
Agent-Based Keynesian Economics....Pages 279-285
An Evolutionary Approach to Structural Economic Dynamics....Pages 287-293
Macroeconomic Interdependence and Frequency Locking....Pages 295-301
Organizational Actors and the Need for a Flexible World Representation....Pages 303-309
Concurrency and the Logic of Economic Organization....Pages 311-317
Models and Scenarios for European Freight Transport Based on Neural Networks and Logit Analysis....Pages 319-325
An Evolutionary Urban Cellular Automata: The Model and Some First Simulations....Pages 327-333
Simulating Multiparty Systems....Pages 335-341
Front Matter....Pages 343-343
Co-ordination and Specialisation....Pages 345-364
Modelling Meta-Memes....Pages 365-384
Innovation and Imitation as Competitive Strategies: Revisiting a Simulation Approach....Pages 385-400
A Simulation of Adaptation Mechanisms in Budgetary Decision Making....Pages 401-418
Searching for the Next Best Mate....Pages 419-436
Adaptive Artificial Agents Play a Finitely Repeated Discrete Principal-Agent Game....Pages 437-456
Foreknowledge in Artificial Societies....Pages 457-469
Would and Should Government Lie about Economic Statistics: Understanding Opinion Formation Processes through Evolutionary Cellular Automata....Pages 471-490
Front Matter....Pages 491-491
Simulation for Statistical Inference in Dynamic Network Models....Pages 493-512
Permutation Techniques for Testing Homogeneity of Social Groups From Questionnaire Results....Pages 513-519
Sketching LifePaths: A New Framework for Socio-Economic Statistics....Pages 521-527
Back Matter....Pages 536-536
New Goods and the Measurement of Real Economic Growth: Summary Results Using the XEcon Experimental Economy....Pages 529-535
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