Agent_zero : toward neurocognitive foundations for generative social science /
"The Final Volume of the Groundbreaking Trilogy on Agent-Based ModelingIn this pioneering synthesis, Joshua Epstein introduces a new theoretical entity: Agent Zero. This software individual, or "agent," is endowed with distinct emotional/affective, cognitive/deliberative, and social m...
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2013]
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| Series: | Princeton studies in complexity.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. MOTIVATION. Generate Social Dynamics ; A Core Target
- THE MODEL COMPONENTS
- MODEL OVERVIEW. Skeletal Equation ; Specific Components
- ORGANIZATION. Part I: Mathematical Model ; Part II: Agent-Based Model ; Part III: Extensions ; Replicability and Research Resources on the Princeton University Press Website ; Part IV: Future Research and Conclusions
- Part I. Mathematical Model. I.1. THE PASSIONS: FEAR CONDITIONING. Fear Circuitry and the Perils of Fitness ; Nomenclature of Conditioning ;
- The Rescorla-Wagner Model; Social Examples; Fear Extinction; I.2. REASON: THE COGNITIVE COMPONENT; I.3. THE SOCIAL COMPONENT; Simple Version of the Core Target; Examples of Fear Contagion; Mechanisms of Fear Contagion; Conformist Empirical Estimates; Generalizing Rescorla-Wagner; The Central Case; Tolstoy: The First Agent Modeler; A Mathematical Aside on Social Norms as Vector Fields; Extinction of Majorities; I.4. INTERIM CONCLUSIONS; Part II. Agent-Based Computational Model; Affective Component; "Rational" Component; Social Component; Action; Pseudocode; II.1. COMPUTATIONAL PARABLES
- Parable 1: The Slaughter of Innocents through Dispositional Contagion; Parable 2: Agent_Zero Initiates: Leadership as Susceptibility to Dispositional Contagion; Run 3. Information Cuts Both Ways; Run 4. A Day in the Life of Agent_Zero: How Affect and Probability Can Change on Different Time Scales; Run 5. Lesion Studies; Part III. Extensions; III.1. ENDOGENOUS DESTRUCTIVE RADIUS; III.2. AGE AND IMPULSE CONTROL; III.3. FIGHT VS. FLIGHT; Case 1: Fight; Case 2: Flight; Capital Flight; III.4. REPLICATING THE LATANÉ-DARLEY EXPERIMENT; Threshold Imputation; The Dialogue; III.5. MEMORY
- III.6. COUPLINGS: ENTANGLEMENT OF PASSION AND REASON; Mathematical Treatment; III.7. ENDOGENOUS DYNAMICS OF CONNECTION STRENGTH; Affective Homophily; General Setup; Agent-Based Model: Nonequlibrium Dynamics; III.8. GROWING THE 2011 ARAB SPRING; III.9. JURY PROCESSES; Phase 1. Public Phase; Phase 2. Courtroom Trial Phase; Phase 3. Jury Phase; III.10. EMERGENT DYNAMICS OF NETWORK STRUCTURE; Network Structure Dynamics as a Poincaré Map; Relation to Literature; III.11. MULTIPLE SOCIAL LEVELS; Agent_Zero as Witness to History; III.12. THE 18TH BRUMAIRE OF AGENT_ZERO
- III.13. INTRODUCTION OF PRICES AND SEASONAL ECONOMIC CYCLES; Prices; A Christmas Story; III.14. SPIRALS OF MUTUAL ESCALATION; Part IV. Future Research and Conclusion; IV.1. FUTURE RESEARCH; IV.2. CONCLUSION; Civil Violence; Economics; Health Behavior; Psychology; Jury Dynamics; The Formation and Dynamics of Networks; Mutual Escalation Dynamics; Birth and Intergenerational Transmission; IV.3. TOWARD NEW GENERATIVE FOUNDATIONS; Appendix I. Threshold Imputation Bounds; Appendix II. Mathematica Code; Appendix III. Agent_Zero NetLogo Source Code; Appendix IV. Parameter Settings for Model Runs; References; Index.