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Simulating Society: A Mathematica Toolkit for Modeling Socioeconomic Behavior
Authors

Richard J. Gaylord
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department: Department of Material Science and Engineering
Lou D'Andria
Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
Department: User Interface Group
Book information

Publisher: TELOS/Springer-Verlag
Copyright year: 1998
ISBN: 0387985328
Medium: Paperback
Pages: 218
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Contents

Modeling a Society of Interacting Mobile, Heterogeneous Individuals | Transmitting Culture | Deciding Whether to Interact | Choosing How to Behave | Grouping and Conforming | Social Networking and Moving to Far-flung Locations | Appendices
Description

Shows how to use Mathematica to create agent-based computer models of complex human interactions. Provides a methodology for simulation studies of a wide spectrum of socioecoonomic phenomena.
Subject

*Social Science > Sociology and Psychology
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