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Prelude to chapter 1 : the generativist manifesto -- Ch. 1. Agent-based computational models and generative social science / Joshua M. Epstein -- Prelude to chapter 2 : confession of a wandering bark -- Ch. 2. Remarks on the foundations of agent-based generative social science / Joshua M. Epstein -- Prelude to chapter 3 : equilibrium, explanation, and Gauss's tombstone -- Ch. 3. Non-explanatory equilibria : an extremely simple game with (mostly) unattainable fixed points / Joshua M. Epstein and Ross A. Hammond -- Appendix to chapter 3 : large effect of a subtle rule change -- Prelude to chapters 4-6 : generating civilizations : the 1050 project and the Artificial Anasazi Model -- Ch. 4. Understanding Anasazi culture change through agent-based modeling / Jeffrey S. Dean, George J. Gumerman, Joshua M. Epstein, Robert L. Axtell, Alan C. Swedlund, Miles T. Parker and Stephen McCarroll -- Ch. 5. Population growth and collapse in a multiagent model of the Kayenta Anasazi in Long House Valley / Robert L. Axtell, Joshua M. Epstein, Jeffrey S. Dean, George J. Gumerman, Alan C. Swedlund, Jason Harburger, Shubha Chakravarty, Ross Hammond, Jon Parker and Miles Parker -- Ch. 6. The evolution of social behavior in the prehistoric American southwest / George J. Gumerman, Alan C. Swedlund, Jeffrey S. Dean and Joshua M. Epstein -- Prelude to chapter 7 : generating patterns in the timing of retirement -- Ch. 7. Coordination in transient social networks : an agent-based computational model of the timing of retirement / Robert L. Axtell and Joshua M. Epstein -- Prelude to chapter 8 : generating classes without conquest -- Ch. 8. The emergence of classes in a multi-agent bargaining model / Robert L. Axtell, Joshua M. Epstein and H. Peyton Young -- Prelude to chapter 9 : generating zones of cooperation in the prisoner's dilemma game -- Ch. 9. Zones of cooperation in demographic prisoner's dilemma / Joshua M. Epstein -- Appendix to chapter 9 : generating norm maps in the demographic coordination game -- Prelude to chapter 10 : generating thoughtless conformity to norms -- Ch. 10. Learning to be thoughtless : social norms and individual computation / Joshua M. Epstein -- Prelude to chapter 11 : generating patterns of spontaneous civil violence -- Ch. 11. Modeling civil violence : an agent-based computational approach / Joshua M. Epstein -- Prelude to chapter 12 : generating epidemic dynamics -- Ch. 12. Toward a containment strategy for smallpox bioterror : an individual-based computational approach / Joshua M. Epstein, Derek A. T. Cummings, Shubha Chakravarty, Ramesh M. Singha and Donald S. Burke -- Prelude to chapter 13 : generating optimal organizations -- Ch. 13. Growing adaptive organizations : an agent-based computational approach / Joshua M. Epstein. |
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