Pt. 1. INTRODUCTION. Introduction
Complexity in social worlds
Pt. 2. PRELIMINARIES. Modeling
On emergence
Pt. 3. COMPUTATIONAL MODELING. Computation as theory
Why agent-based objects?
Pt. 4. MODELS OF COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SOCIAL SYSTEMS. A basic framework
Complex adaptive social systems in one dimension
Social dynamics
Evolving automata
Some fundamentals of organizational decision making
Pt. 5. CONCLUSIONS. Social science in between
Epilogue
Appendixes. A. An open agenda for complex adaptive social systems
B. Practices for computational modeling.
Complex adaptive systems : an introduction to computational models of social life by John H. Miller. ISBN 9780691127026. Published by Princeton University Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.