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Preface
Contributors
Simulating societies: an introduction	p. 1
Simulation of complex organizational processes: a review of methods and their epistemological foundations	p. 19
The evolution of technologies	p. 41
Simulating the emergence of social order from individual behaviour	p. 63
The architecture of society: stochastic simulation of urban movement	p. 85
Multi-agent simulation as a tool for studying emergent processes in societies	p. 127
Simulating fishermen's society	p. 143
Simulating prehistoric hunter-gatherer societies	p. 165
The EOS project: modelling Upper Palaeolithic social change	p. 195
Learning to co-operate using cultural algorithms	p. 223
The simulation of trade in oligopolistic markets	p. 245
Mind is not enough: the precognitive bases of social interaction	p. 267
References	p. 287
Index	p. 301
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