Advances in Natural Computation - Vol. 5
ADAPTATION AND EVOLUTION IN COLLECTIVE SYSTEMS
by Akira Namatame (National Defense Academy, Japan)
Table of Contents (89k)
Preface (132k)
Chapter 1: Introduction to Collective Systems (1,372k)
Self-contained and unified in presentation, this invaluable book provides a broad introduction to the fascinating subject of many-body collective systems with adapting and evolving agents. The coverage includes game theoretic systems, multi-agent systems, and large-scale socio-economic systems of individual optimizing agents. The diversity and scope of such systems have been steadily growing in computer science, economics, social sciences, physics, and biology.
Contents:
- Introduction to Collective Systems
- Introduction to Game Theory and
Evolutionary Games
- Social Interactions and Social Games
- Micro–Macro Dynamics
- Knowledge Transaction Games
- Gains from Diversity
- Selective Interaction and Reinforcement of Preference
- Give-and-Take in Social Interaction
- Collective Evolution of Behavioral Rules
- Collective Evolution of Synchronized Behavioral Rules
Readership: Graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in computer
science and economics, computer scientists, economists, physicists and other scientists keen in complex systems with many participants.
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Pub. date: Aug 2006 |
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