Joshua M. Epstein

TL;DR: In this article, growing artificial societies are modeled with cutting-edge computer simulation techniques and fundamental collective behaviors such as group formation, cultural transmission, combat, and trade are seen to emerge from the interaction of individual agents following a few simple rules.

TL;DR: Artificial Society as discussed by the authors models life and death on the sugarcane, sex, culture and conflict, the emergence of history sugar and spice -trade comes to the sugarscane disease agents a society is born artificial societies versus traditional models artificial society versus a life toward generative social science - can you grow it?.

TL;DR: Generative Social Science: Studies in Agent-Based Computational Modeling as mentioned in this paper is a collection of works with all but three chapters (Introduction, Chapters 2 and 13) published separately elsewhere in books or journals.

TL;DR: It is argued that the agent-based computational model permits a distinctive approach to social science for which the term “generative” is suitable, and the connection between agent- based modeling and classical emergentism is taken up, criticizing the latter and arguing that the two are incompatible.