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

by Kohler, Timothy A.; Gumerman, George J.

• ISBN13: 9780195131673
• ISBN10: 0195131673
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-02-10
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Putting Social Sciences Together Again: An Introduction to the Volume	1	(18)
Timothy A. Kohler
Nonlinear and Synthetic Models for Primate Societies	19	(26)
Irenaeus J. A. te Boekhorst
Charlotte K. Hemelrijk
The Evolution of Cooperation in an Ecological Context: An Agent-Based Model	45	(32)
John W. Pepper
Barbara B. Smuts
Evolutions of Inference	77	(12)
Brian Skyrms
Trajectories to Complexity in Artificial Societies: Rationality, Belief, and Emotions	89	(18)
Jim E. Doran
MAGICAL Computer Simulation of Mesolithic Foraging	107	(38)
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	145	(34)
Timothy A. Kohler
James Kresl
Carla Van West
Eric Carr
Richard H. Wilshusen
Understanding Anasazi Culture Change Through Agent-Based Modeling	179	(28)
Jeffrey S. Dean
George J. Gumerman
Joshua M. Epstein
Robert L. Axtell
Alan C. Swedlund
Miles T. Parker
Steven McCarroll
Anti-Chaos, Common Property, and the Emergence of Cooperation	207	(18)
J. Stephen Lansing
The Political Impact of Marriage in a Virtual Polynesian Society	225	(26)
Cathy A. Small
The Impact of Raiding on Settlement Patterns in the Northern Valley of Oaxaca: An Approach Using Decision Trees	251	(24)
Robert G. Reynolds
The Fractal House of Pharaoh: Ancient Egypt as a Complex Adaptive System, a Trial Formulation	275	(80)
Mark Lehner
Modeling Sociality: The View from Europe	355	(18)
Nigel Gilbert
Agent-Based Modeling of Small-Scale Societies: State of the Art and Future Prospects	373	(14)
Henry T. Wright
Index	387