Springer Self-organizing Coalitions Managing Complexity - Agent Simulation

This interdisciplinary book from Springer combines complex networks, cellular automata, multi-agent systems, self-organization and game theory to address complexity management. The first part delivers an extensive introduction to these foundational areas, whilst the second part explores practical research scenarios applying these concepts. The book includes CellNet, a hands-on software framework that demonstrates the theoretical material through interactive simulations. Designed for undergraduate and graduate study, this volume integrates evolutionary game theory with dynamic social networks to show how agents self-organize into coalitions. Part of the Emergence, Complexity and Computation series (volume 29), it bridges theoretical foundations and practical implementation, making complex systems accessible through both narrative explanation and working software tools that readers can use to explore agent-based models themselves.