Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life (Princeton Studies in Complexity Book 14)

This book provides a comprehensive and accessible account of complex adaptive social systems, offering insights into the key tools and ideas that have emerged in the field since the mid-1990s.

With a focus on concepts such as emergence, self-organized criticality, automata, networks, diversity, adaptation, and feedback, this book demonstrates how to explore complex adaptive systems using methods ranging from mathematics to computational models of adaptive agents.

By combining ideas from economics, political science, biology, physics, and computer science, the authors illuminate topics in organization, adaptation, decentralization, and robustness.

This book is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding complex social systems and how they function.