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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| "Artificial Society" Models | |
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| Agents | |
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| Environment | |
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| Rules | |
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| Object-Oriented Implementation | |
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| Social Structures Emerge | |
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| The Sugarscape Model | |
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| Life and Death on the Sugarscape | |
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| A CompuTerrarium | |
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| Agent Social Networks | |
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| Sex, Culture, and Conflict: The Emergence of History | |
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| Sugar and Spice: Trade Comes to the Sugarscape | |
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| Markets of Neoclassical Agents | |
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| Markets of Non-Neoclassical Agents | |
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| Credit Networks | |
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| Social Computation | |
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| Disease Agents | |
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| A Society Is Born | |
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| Artificial Societies versus Traditional Models | |
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| Heterogeneous Agent Populations | |
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| Space Distinct from the Agent Population | |
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| Agent-Environment and Agent-Agent Interactions according to Simple Local Rules | |
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| Focus on Dynamics | |
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| Beyond Methodological Individualism | |
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| Collective Structures Emerge from the Bottom Up | |
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| Artificial Societies versus ALife | |
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| Cellular Automata + Agents = Sugarscape | |
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| Toward Generative Social Science: Can You Grow It? | |
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| Life and Death on the Sugarscape | |
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| In the Beginning . . . There Was Sugar | |
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| Simple Local Rules for the Environment | |
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| The Agents | |
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| Agent States | |
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| Simple Local Rules for the Agents | |
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| Artificial Society on the Sugarscape | |
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| Carrying Capacity | |
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| Selection without Sex | |
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| Wealth and Its Distribution in the Agent Population | |
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| Emergence | |
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| Measures of Economic Inequality: The Gini Coefficient | |
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| Social Networks of Neighbors | |
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| Migration | |
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| Seasonal Migration | |
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| Pollution: A Negative Externality | |
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| A Social Interpretation | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Surprising Sufficiency of Simple Rules | |
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| Artificial Social Systems as Laboratories | |
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| Sex, Culture, and Conflict: The Emergence of History | |
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| Sexual Reproduction | |
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| Fertility | |
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| The Theory of Evolution Brought to Life | |
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| Regimes of Population Dynamics | |
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| Nature and Nurture: The Genetic Effect of Inheritance | |
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| Genealogical Networks | |
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| Cultural Processes | |
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| Cultural Tags | |
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| Cultural Transmission | |
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| Cultural Groups | |
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| Notation | |
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| Cultural Dynamics | |
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| Vertical Transmission of Culture | |
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| Networks of Friends | |
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| Combat | |
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| Reward Equal to Accumulated Wealth | |
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| Reward Equal to a Fixed Value | |
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| Effect of Rule Changes on Emergent Structures | |
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| Combat and Assimilation: Two Modes of Group Defense | |
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| The Proto-History | |
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| Sugar and Spice: Trade Comes to the Sugarscape | |
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| Spice: A Second Commodity | |
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| The Agent Welfare Function | |
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| The Agent Movement Rule in the Presence of Two Commodities | |
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| Trade Rules | |
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| Internal Valuations | |
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| The Bargaining Rule and Local Price Formation | |
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| The Trade Algorithm | |
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| Markets of Bilateral Traders | |
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| Neoclassical Agents and Statistical Price Equilibrium | |
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| The Invisible Hand | |
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| Performance of Markets Produced by Neoclassical Traders | |
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| Carrying Capacity Is Increased by Trade | |
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| Statistical Equilibrium | |
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| Horizontal Inequality | |
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| Local Efficiency, Global Inefficiency | |
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| Far from Equilibrium Economics | |
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| Effect of the Distribution of Agent Vision on Price Variance | |
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| Non-Neoclassical Agents and Further Departures from Equilibrium | |
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| Finite Lives: Replacement | |
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| Equity | |
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| Finite Lives: Sexual Reproduction | |
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| Effect of Culturally Varying Preferences | |
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| Externalities and Price Disequilibrium: The Effect of Pollution | |
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| On the Evolution of Foresight | |
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| Emergent Economic Networks | |
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| Commodity Flows through Networks of Trade Partners | |
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| Credit Networks and the Emergence of Hierarchy | |
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| Social Computation, Emergent Computation | |
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| Summary and Conclusions | |
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| Policy Implications | |
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| Disease Processes | |
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| Models of Disease Transmission and Immune Response | |
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| Heterogeneous People, Homogeneous Models | |
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| Separate Space | |
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| Immune System Response | |
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| Binary Strings | |
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| Symptoms | |
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| The Immunological Response Rule | |
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| Immunological Memory as Lock-In | |
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| Disease Transmission | |
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| Multiple Diseases | |
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| Genotypes and Phenotypes | |
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| Childhood Diseases | |
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| Digital Diseases on the Sugarscape | |
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| Disease Transmission Networks | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Summary | |
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| Emergent Society | |
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| Indecomposability | |
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| Complexity and Policy | |
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| Some Extensions of the Current Model | |
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| Rule Ecologies and the "Fitness" of Maximization | |
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| A Definition of "Sustainability" | |
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| Artificial Agents + Real Landscapes = Hybrid Models | |
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| Computational Archaeology | |
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| Other Artificial Societies | |
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| A Variant of Schelling's Segregation Model | |
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| Ring World | |
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| Analysis | |
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| Formal Analysis of Artificial Societies | |
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| Generative Social Science | |
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| Looking Ahead ... | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Software Engineering Aspects of Artificial Societies | |
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| Summary of Rule Notation | |
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| State-Dependence of the Welfare Function | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |