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"The Final Volume of the Groundbreaking Trilogy on Agent-Based ModelingIn 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 m...

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Autor principal: Epstein, Joshua M., 1951- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social sciences > Mathematical models.
Social sciences > Computer simulation.
SCIENCE > Cognitive Science.
Sciences sociales > Modeles mathematiques.
Sciences sociales > Simulation par ordinateur.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. MOTIVATION. Generate Social Dynamics ; A Core Target
  • THE MODEL COMPONENTS
  • MODEL OVERVIEW. Skeletal Equation ; Specific Components
  • ORGANIZATION. Part I: Mathematical Model ; Part II: Agent-Based Model ; Part III: Extensions ; Replicability and Research Resources on the Princeton University Press Website ; Part IV: Future Research and Conclusions
  • Part I. Mathematical Model. I.1. THE PASSIONS: FEAR CONDITIONING. Fear Circuitry and the Perils of Fitness ; Nomenclature of Conditioning.
  • The Rescorla-Wagner ModelSocial Examples; Fear Extinction; I.2. REASON: THE COGNITIVE COMPONENT; I.3. THE SOCIAL COMPONENT; Simple Version of the Core Target; Examples of Fear Contagion; Mechanisms of Fear Contagion; Conformist Empirical Estimates; Generalizing Rescorla-Wagner; The Central Case; Tolstoy: The First Agent Modeler; A Mathematical Aside on Social Norms as Vector Fields; Extinction of Majorities; I.4. INTERIM CONCLUSIONS; Part II. Agent-Based Computational Model; Affective Component; "Rational" Component; Social Component; Action; Pseudocode; II.1. COMPUTATIONAL PARABLES.
  • Parable 1: The Slaughter of Innocents through Dispositional ContagionParable 2: Agent_Zero Initiates: Leadership as Susceptibility to Dispositional Contagion; Run 3. Information Cuts Both Ways; Run 4. A Day in the Life of Agent_Zero: How Affect and Probability Can Change on Different Time Scales; Run 5. Lesion Studies; Part III. Extensions; III. 1. ENDOGENOUS DESTRUCTIVE RADIUS; III. 2. AGE AND IMPULSE CONTROL; III. 3. FIGHT VS. FLIGHT; Case 1: Fight; Case 2: Flight; Capital Flight; III. 4. REPLICATING THE LATANÉ-DARLEY EXPERIMENT; Threshold Imputation; The Dialogue; III. 5. MEMORY.
  • III. 6. COUPLINGS: ENTANGLEMENT OF PASSION AND REASONMathematical Treatment; III. 7. ENDOGENOUS DYNAMICS OF CONNECTION STRENGTH; Affective Homophily; General Setup; Agent-Based Model: Nonequlibrium Dynamics; III. 8. GROWING THE 2011 ARAB SPRING; III. 9. JURY PROCESSES; Phase 1. Public Phase; Phase 2. Courtroom Trial Phase; Phase 3. Jury Phase; III. 10. EMERGENT DYNAMICS OF NETWORK STRUCTURE; Network Structure Dynamics as a Poincare Map; Relation to Literature; III. 11. MULTIPLE SOCIAL LEVELS; Agent_Zero as Witness to History; III. 12. THE 18TH BRUMAIRE OF AGENT_ZERO.
  • III. 13. INTRODUCTION OF PRICES AND SEASONAL ECONOMIC CYCLESPrices; A Christmas Story; III. 14. SPIRALS OF MUTUAL ESCALATION; Part IV. Future Research and Conclusion; IV. 1. FUTURE RESEARCH; IV. 2. CONCLUSION; Civil Violence; Economics; Health Behavior; Psychology; Jury Dynamics; The Formation and Dynamics of Networks; Mutual Escalation Dynamics; Birth and Intergenerational Transmission; IV. 3. TOWARD NEW GENERATIVE FOUNDATIONS; Appendix I. Threshold Imputation Bounds; Appendix II. Mathematica Code; Appendix III. Agent_Zero NetLogo Source Code; Appendix IV. Parameter Settings for Model Runs.

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