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.

• 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