@Book{		  epstein96a,
  author =	 {Joshua M. Epstein and Robert L. Axtell},
  title =	 {Growing Artificial Societies : Social Science from
                  the Bottom Up},
  googleid =	 {ZlDom26mdCMJ:scholar.google.com/},
  publisher =	 {Brookings Institute},
  year =	 1996,
  isbn =	 {0262050536},
  url =		 {http://www.brook.edu/sugarscape},
  abstract =	 {How do social structures and group behaviors arise
                  from the interaction of individuals? Growing
                  Artificial Societies approaches this question with
                  cutting-edge computer simulation
                  techniques. Fundamental collective behaviors such as
                  group formation, cultural transmission, combat, and
                  trade are seen to "emerge" from the interaction of
                  individual agents following a few simple rules. In
                  their program, named Sugarscape, Epstein and Axtell
                  begin the development of a "bottom up" social
                  science that is capturing the attention of
                  researchers and commentators alike. The study is
                  part of the 2050 Project, a joint venture of the
                  Santa Fe Institute, the World Resources Institute,
                  and the Brookings Institution. The project is an
                  international effort to identify conditions for a
                  sustainable global system in the next century and to
                  design policies to help achieve such a system.},
  keywords =     {complexity modeling},
  comment =	 {The Sugarscape system description.},
  cluster = 	 {2554849882618220646}
}