Joshua M Epstein: 3 books
Generative Social Science
Studies in Agent-Based Computational Modeling
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
Agent-based computational modeling is changing the face of social science. In Generative Social Science, Joshua Epstein argues that this powerful, novel technique permits the social sciences to meet a fundamentally new standard of explanation, in which one "grows" the phenomenon of interest in an...
Agent_Zero
Toward Neurocognitive Foundations for Generative Social Science
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2014
The Final Volume of the Groundbreaking Trilogy on Agent-Based Modeling
In this pioneering synthesis, Joshua Epstein introduces a new theoretical entity: Agent_Zero. This software individual, or "agent," is endowed with distinct emotional/affective, cognitive/deliberative, and social modules....
Nonlinear Dynamics, Mathematical Biology, And Social Science
Wise Use Of Alternative Therapies
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
This book is based on a series of lectures on mathematical biology, the essential dynamics of complex and crucially important social systems, and the unifying power of mathematics and nonlinear dynamical systems theory.