As the description of this blog makes clear, we would like to start a dialogue about agent-based modeling and its role in the increasingly large body of literature on social science with a non-linear perspective. Specifically, we would like to explore the use of PS-I, a platform developed by Ian Lustick, professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, and Vladimir Dergachev, currently working with the LIGO project. Future posts will be geared toward getting someone started with PS-I, and we will continue to add useful PS-I tips as well as ways to learn more about the subject's we'll be interested in posting about.
Perhaps the best way to get started is to look through Professor Lustick's syllabus (pdf) for his class Evolution, Politics and Computer Simulation. A highly recommend book on the subject of the philosophy and meta-physics of evolution is Daniel Dennett's Darwin's Dangerous Idea.
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