Simulating Social Complexity: A Handbook

by Bruce Edmonds

Book Overview

Social systems are among the most complex known. This poses particular problems for those who wish to understand them. The complexity often makes analytic approaches infeasible and natural language approaches inadequate for relating intricate cause and effect. However, individual- and agent-based computational approaches hold out the possibility of new and deeper understanding of such systems.

Simulating Social Complexity examines all aspects...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3540938125
• ISBN13: 9783540938125
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 754 Pages
• Weight: 2.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"