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Growing Artificial Societies
How do social structures and group behaviors arise from the interaction of individuals? Growing Artificial Societies approaches this question with cutting-edge computer simulation …
Agent_Zero
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 …
Metareasoning
Experts report on the latest artificial intelligence research concerning reasoning about reasoning itself. The capacity to think about our own thinking may lie at the heart of what …
Controlling the Greenhouse Effect
Roughly 30 percent of the solar radiation directed toward the earth is reflected directly back into outer space. The remaining 70 percent is absorbed by earth and re-emitted …
The Calculus of Conventional War
Conventional forces absorb the preponderance of America's defense spending. Further, most experts believe the most likely path to nuclear war is through a failure of conventional …
Calculus of Conventional War
Conventional forces absorb the preponderance of America's defense spending. Further, most experts believe the most likely path to nuclear war is through a failure of conventional …
Generative Social Science
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 …
Nonlinear Dynamics, Mathematical Biology, And Social Science
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 …
Controlling the Greenhouse Effect
Roughly 30 percent of the solar radiation directed toward the earth is reflected directly back into outer space. The remaining 70 percent is absorbed by earth and re-emitted …
Measuring Military Power
Joshua M. Epstein argues that prevailing assumptions about the East- West balance of power rest on erroneous measures of military strength. He develops a method for analyzing …
Nonlinear Dynamics, Mathematical Biology, And Social Science
Epstein reveals and exploits dynamical analogies between seemingly disparate social and biological phenomena..
Toward a Containment Strategy for Smallpox Bioterror
In the United States, routine smallpox vaccination ended in 1972. The level of immunity remaining in the U.S. population is uncertain, but is generally assumed to be quite low. …