Dynamics in Human and Primate Societies: Agent-Based Modeling of Social and Spatial Processes

by Timothy A. Kohler, George G. Gumerman

Overview

As part of the SFI series, this book presents the most up-to-date research in the study of human and primate societies, presenting recent advances in software and algorithms for modeling societies. It also addresses case studies that have applied agent-based modeling approaches in archaeology, cultural anthropology, primatology, and sociology. Many things set this book apart from any other on modeling in the social sciences, including the emphasis on small-scale societies and the attempts to maximize realism in the modeling efforts applied to social problems and questions. It is an ideal book for professionals in archaeology or cultural anthropology as well as a valuable tool for those studying primatology or computer science.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195131680
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/10/2000
Series:	Santa Fe Institute Studies on the Sciences of Complexity
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 6.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Washington State University

University of Arizona

Table of Contents

Preface1. Putting Social Sciences Together Again: An Introduction to the Volume, Timothy A. Kohler2. Nonlinear and Synthetic Models for Primate Societies, Irenaeus J. A. te Boekhorst and Charlotte K. Hemelrijk3. The Evolution of Cooperation in an Ecological Context: An Agent-Based Model, John W. Pepper and Barbara B. Smuts4. Evolution of Interference, Brian Skyrms5. Trajectories to Complexity in Artificial Societies: Rationality, Belief, and Emotions, Jim E. Doran6. MAGICAL Computer Simulation of Mesolithic Foraging, Mark Winter Lake7 Be There Then: A Modeling Approach to Settlement Determinants and Spatial Efficiency among Late Ancestral Pueblo Populations of the Mesa Verde Region, U.S. Southwest, Timothy A. Kohler et al.8 Understanding Anasazi Culture Change through Agent-Based Modeling, Jeffrey S. Dean et al.9. Anti-Chaos, Common Property, and the Emergence of Cooperation, J. Stephen Lansing10. The Political Impact of Marriage in a Virtual Polynesian Society, Cathy A. Small11. The Impact of Raiding on Settlement Patterns in the Northern Valley of Oaxaca: An Approach Using Decision Trees, Robert G. Reynolds12. The Fractal House of Pharaoh: Ancient Egypt as a Complex Adaptive System, a Trial Formulation, Mark Lehner13. Modeling Sociality: The View from Europe, Nigel Gilbert14. Agent-Based Modeling of Small-Scale Societies: State of the Art and Future Prospects, Henry T. WrightIndex