Simulating emergence and downward causation in small groups

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

Volumn 1979, Issue , 2001, Pages 49-67

  Keith Sawyer, R ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

BI-DIRECTIONAL; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; SOCIAL SYSTEMS; SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84957022686     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44561-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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