Survival under Uncertainty An Introduction to Probability Models of Social Structure and Evolution /

• Main Author: Volchenkov, Dimitri (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Understanding Complex Systems,
• Subjects: Physics.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Sociophysics.; Econophysics.; Science > Social aspects.; Complexity, Computational.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Socio- and Econophysics, Population and Evolutionary Models.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.; Societal Aspects of Physics.; Complexity.

This book introduces and studies a number of stochastic models of subsistence, communication, social evolution and political transition that will allow the reader to grasp the role of uncertainty as a fundamental property of our irreversible world. At the same time, it aims to bring about a more int...