<p><p>This new edition of Quantitative Sociodynamics presents a general strategy for interdisciplinary model building and its application to a quantitative description of behavioral changes based on social interaction processes. Originally, the crucial methods for the modeling of complex systems (st
Quantitative Sociodynamics: Stochastic Methods and Models of Social Interaction Processes
β Scribed by Dirk Helbing (auth.)
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 347
- Series
- Theory and Decision Library 31
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Introduction and Summary....Pages 1-16
Master Equation in State Space....Pages 21-52
Boltzmann -Like Equations....Pages 53-67
Master Equation in Configuration Space....Pages 69-82
The Fokker-Planck Equation....Pages 83-101
Langevin Equations and Non-Linear Dynamics....Pages 103-118
Problems and Terminology....Pages 123-136
Decision Theoretical Specification of the Transition Rates....Pages 137-157
Opinion Formation Models....Pages 159-201
Social Fields and Social Forces....Pages 203-225
Evolutionary Game Theory....Pages 227-254
Determination of the Model Parameters from Empirical Data....Pages 255-290
Back Matter....Pages 291-339
β¦ Subjects
Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity;Operation Research/Decision Theory;Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences;Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes
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