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Artificial societies and generative social science

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What is anartificial society? What can such models offer the social sciences in particular? We address these general questions, drawing brief illustrations from the specific artificial society we call “Sugarscape.”

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  1. Epstein JM, Axtell R (1996) Growing artificial societies: social science from the bottom up. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass

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  1. The Brookings Institution and Santa Fe Institute, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, 20036, Washington, DC, USA

    Joshua M. Epstein & Robert Axtell

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  1. Joshua M. Epstein
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Epstein, J.M., Axtell, R. Artificial societies and generative social science. Artificial Life and Robotics 1, 33–34 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02471109

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