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Exploring Emergence within Social Systems with Agent Based Models

Exploring Emergence within Social Systems with Agent Based Models
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Author(s): Marcia R. Friesen (University of Manitoba, Canada), Richard Gordon (Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory, USA & Wayne State University, USA)and Robert D. McLeod (University of Manitoba, Canada)
Copyright: 2014
Pages: 20
Source title: Interdisciplinary Applications of Agent-Based Social Simulation and Modeling
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Diana Francisca Adamatti (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Brasil), Graçaliz Pereira Dimuro (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Brasil)and Helder Coelho (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5954-4.ch004

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Abstract

In this chapter, the authors examine manifestations of emergence or apparent emergence in agent based social modeling and simulation, and discuss the inherent challenges in building real world models and in defining, recognizing and validating emergence within these systems. The discussion is grounded in examples of research on emergence by others, with extensions from within our research group. The works cited and built upon are explicitly chosen as representative samples of agent-based models that involve social systems, where observation of emergent behavior is a sought-after outcome. The concept of the distinctiveness of social from abiotic emergence in terms of the use of global parameters by agents is introduced.

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