Chapter 5: Complex Systems, Decision-Making and Computability: A Social Science Perspective

The following sections are included:

• Introduction

• Overview of complex adaptive systems

• CASs, modeling, and computation

• Applications of ABMs

• Classical logic and its (possible) discontents

• CASs and real-world decision making

• What is rationality?

• The role of heuristics

• Summary and conclusion

• References