From simulation to theory (and backward)

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5466 LNAI, Issue , 2009, Pages 29-47

  Conte, Rosaria ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agent based generative social simulation; Bottom up theory; Multiple realizability; Social emergence; Topdown theory

Indexed keywords

AGENT-BASED GENERATIVE SOCIAL SIMULATION; BOTTOM-UP THEORY; MULTIPLE REALIZABILITY; SOCIAL EMERGENCE; TOPDOWN THEORY;

BIOINFORMATICS; BIOLOGY; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 67650689009     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-01109-2_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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