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Nature 448, 647-648 (9 August 2007) | doi:10.1038/448647a; Published online 8 August 2007
Social science goes virtual
Philip Ball1
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Abstract
Mathematical models could help us re-engage with reality rather than trying to reinvent it.
BOOK REVIEWED-Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life
by John H. Miller & Scott E. Page
Princeton University Press: 2007. 284 pp. $24.95, £14.95 (pbk); $65.00, £38.95 (hbk)
BOOK REVIEWED-Generative Social Science: Studies in Agent Based Computational Modeling
by Joshua M. Epstein
Princeton University Press: 2007. 352 pp. $49.50, £29.95
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