TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kohler,Timothy A.
AU  - Gumerman,George J.
TI  - Dynamics in human and primate societies: agent-based modeling of social and spatial processes 
T2  - Santa Fe Institute studies in the sciences of complexity
SN  - 0195131673 (alk. paper)
AV  - GN360 .D89 2000
U1  - 303.4/01/13 21
PY  - 2000///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Social history
KW  - To 500
KW  - Mathematical models
KW  - Social evolution
KW  - Computer simulation
KW  - Animal societies
KW  - Social behavior in animals
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Nonlinear and synthetic models for primate societies; Irenaeus J.A. te Boekhorst and Charlotte K. Hemelrijk --; The evolution of cooperation in an ecological context : an agent-based model; John W. Pepper and Barbara B. Smuts --; Evolution of inference; Brian Skyrms --; Trajectories to complexity in artificial societies : rationality, belief, and emotions; Jim E. Doran --; MAGICAL computer simulation of Mesolithic foraging; Mark Winter Lake --; 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, James Kresl, Carla Van West, Eric Carr, and Richard H. Wilshusen; Undestanding 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 Steven McCarroll --; Anti-chaos, common property, and the emergence of cooperation; J. Stephen Lansing --; The political impact of marriage in a virtual Polynesian society; Cathy A. Small --; The impact of raiding on settlement patterns in the Northern Valley of Oaxaca : an approach using decision trees; Robert G. Reynolds --; The fractal house of pharaoh : Ancient Egypt as a complex adaptive system, a trial formulation; Mark Lehner --; Modeling society : the view from Europe; Nigel Gilbert --; Agent-based modeling of small-scale societies : state of the art and future prospects; Henry T. Wright
N2  - "Dynamics in Human and Primate Societies presents agent-based modeling studies from archaeologists, ethnologists, sociologists, philosophers, and primatologists that examine these social and spatial dynamics without ignoring their complexity or compromising replicability; With an emphasis on small-scale societies in an effort to maximize realism in the modeling efforts applied to social evolution, this volume is an important step toward an actor-oriented, cross-disciplinary approach to understanding human behavior over time."; "Presenting recent advances in software and algorithms for modeling societies, Dynamics in Human and Primate Societies is an ideal book for professionals in archaeology and cultural anthropology as well as a valuable tool for those studying primatology and computer science."--Jacket
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