Social Self-Organization Agent-Based Simulations and Experiments to Study Emergent Social Behavior /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Helbing, Dirk (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012.
• Series: Understanding Complex Systems,
• Subjects: Physics.; Game theory.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Statistics.; Sociology.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.; Numerical and Computational Physics.; Sociology, general.; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law.; Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences.

What are the principles that keep our society together? This question is even more difficult to answer than the long-standing question, what are the forces that keep our world together. However, the social challenges of humanity in the 21st century ranging from the financial crises to the impacts of...

Table of Contents:

• Modeling of Socio-Economic Systems
• Agent-based modeling
• Self-Organization in Pedestrian Crowds
• Opinion Formation
• Spatial Self-Organization through Success-Driven Mobility
• Cooperation in Social Dilemmas
• Co-Evolution of Social Behavior and Spatial Organization
• Evolution of Moral Behavior
• Coordination and Competitive Innovation Spreading in Social Networks
• Heterogeneous Populations: Coexistence, Integration, or Conflict
• Social Experiments and Computers
• Learning of Coordinated Behavior
• Response to Information
• Systemic Risks in Society and Economics
• Managing Complexity
• Challenges in Economics.