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Agent_Zero : toward neurocognitive foundations for generative social science / Joshua M. Epstein

By: Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Princeton studies in complexity | Princeton Studies in Complexity Ser ; v.25Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2013Edition: Online-AusgDescription: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (xvi, 249 pages)) : illustrations (black and white, and colour)ISBN:
  • 9781306282833
  • 1306282837
  • 9781400848256
Other title:
  • Agent Zero
  • Agent Zero
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9780691158884 | 1306282772 | Erscheint auch als: : Epstein, Joshua M.: Agent_Zero Druck-Ausgabe | Erscheint auch als: Agent_Zero. Druck-Ausgabe Princeton, N.J. [u.a.] : Princeton Univ. Press, 2013. XVI, 249 S.DDC classification:
  • 300.113
  • 300.1'13 23
  • 300.1
RVK: RVK: ST 650 | MR 2200LOC classification:
  • H61.3
Online resources: Summary: The Final Volume of the Groundbreaking Trilogy on Agent-Based Modeling In this pioneering synthesis, Joshua Epstein introduces a new theoretical entity: Agent_Zero. This software individual, or "agent," is endowed with distinct emotional/affective, cognitive/deliberative, and social modules. Grounded in contemporary neuroscience, these internal components interact to generate observed, often far-from-rational, individual behavior. When multiple agents of this new type move and interact spatially, they collectively generate an astonishing range of dynamics spanning the fields of social conflict, psychology, public health, law, network science, and economics. Epstein weaves a computational tapestry with threads from Plato, Hume, Darwin, Pavlov, Smith, Tolstoy, Marx, James, and Dostoevsky, among others. This transformative synthesis of social philosophy, cognitive neuroscience, and agent-based modeling will fascinate scholars and students of every stripe. Epstein's computer programs are provided in the book or on its Princeton University Press website, along with movies of his "computational parables." Agent_Zero is a signal departure in what it includes (e.g., a new synthesis of neurally grounded internal modules), what it eschews (e.g., standard behavioral imitation), the phenomena it generates (from genocide to financial panic), and the modeling arsenal it offers the scientific community. For generative social science, Agent_Zero presents a groundbreaking vision and the tools to realize it.Summary: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- MOTIVATION -- Generate Social Dynamics -- A Core Target -- THE MODEL COMPONENTS -- MODEL OVERVIEW -- Skeletal Equation -- Specific Components -- ORGANIZATION -- Part I: Mathematical Model -- Part II: Agent-Based Model -- Part III: Extensions -- Replicability and Research Resources on the Princeton University Press Website -- Part IV: Future Research and Conclusions -- Part I. Mathematical Model -- I.1. THE PASSIONS: FEAR CONDITIONING -- Fear Circuitry and the Perils of Fitness -- Nomenclature of Conditioning -- The Rescorla-Wagner Model -- Social Examples -- Fear Extinction -- I.2. REASON: THE COGNITIVE COMPONENT -- I.3. THE SOCIAL COMPONENT -- Simple Version of the Core Target -- Examples of Fear Contagion -- Mechanisms of Fear Contagion -- Conformist Empirical Estimates -- Generalizing Rescorla-Wagner -- The Central Case -- Tolstoy: The First Agent Modeler -- A Mathematical Aside on Social Norms as Vector Fields -- Extinction of Majorities -- I.4. INTERIM CONCLUSIONS -- Part II. Agent-Based Computational Model -- Affective Component -- "Rational" Component -- Social Component -- Action -- Pseudocode -- II.1. COMPUTATIONAL PARABLES -- Parable 1: The Slaughter of Innocents through Dispositional Contagion -- Parable 2: Agent_Zero Initiates: Leadership as Susceptibility to Dispositional Contagion -- Run 3. Information Cuts Both Ways -- Run 4. A Day in the Life of Agent_Zero: How Affect and Probability Can Change on Different Time Scales -- Run 5. Lesion Studies -- Part III. Extensions -- III.1. ENDOGENOUS DESTRUCTIVE RADIUS -- III.2. AGE AND IMPULSE CONTROL -- III.3. FIGHT VS. FLIGHT -- Case 1: Fight -- Case 2: Flight -- Capital Flight -- III.4. REPLICATING THE LATANÉ-DARLEY EXPERIMENT -- Threshold Imputation -- The Dialogue.PPN: PPN: 787517275Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-26-MYL | ZDB-30-PAD | ZDB-30-PQE | ZDB-30-PUP
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