see also readings at Doug's course on self-organizing systems, its
list of links on social dynamics, and doug's
Thermodynamic Principles for the Social Sciences
At bookstore: Order these 2 from Amazon.com: web links take you there directly
(possibly: optional)
Networks in Action: Communication, Economics and Human Knowledge,
by David Batten, John Casti, Roland Thord (Editor)
Cooperation and Conflict in General Evolutionary Processes,
by John L. Casti (Editor), Anders Karlqvist (Editor)
Texts and Authors
Individual Strategy and Social Structure : An Evolutionary Theory of Institutions,
by H. Peyton Young (Brookings Institute), Peyton H. Young
Amazon Price: $37.50
Would-Be Worlds: How Simulation Is Changing the Frontiers of Science,
by John L. Casti
Evolution of the Social Contract by Brian Skyrms $16.96+
Cambridge 1996.
Bill Harms has a simulator for the dynamics of some of the games in
Evolution of the Social Contract: see also Harm's et al.
Evolving Artificial Moral Ecologies and its
contents page, at the E.A.M.E. site
Phase transitions
Doug Hill's paper on Medieval Champaigne fairs
Complex Systems pages
Complexity: applications some web links
Brief Overview of Swarm Agent Simulation
Agent-Based Computational Economics
Adaptive Agent Simulation SANTA FE INSTITUTE
Yahoo's Artificial Life pages
ALife home page
Village simulation
Croatian Society for Computer Simulation Modelling
Computer Simulation of Societies
Roger A. McCain Strategy and Conflict: An Introductory Sketch of Game Theory
Complexification: Explaining a Paradoxical World Through the Science of Surprise, by John L. Casti
The Logics of Social Structure by Kyriakos M. Kontopolous $52.95+
Computer Simulation: The Art and Science of Digital World Construction, by Paul A. Fishwick
Review
review by Gert Korthof Kauffman At Home in the Universe.The secret of life is auto-catalysis