TY - BOOK AU - Hoda Gamal Osman AU - Hazem Ahmed Hosny , TI - Complex social systems paradigm : : A literature review on concepts and fields of application / PY - 2011/// CY - Cairo : PB - Hoda Gamal Osman , KW - Complex Adaptive Social Systems (CASS) KW - Emergence KW - Social Simulation N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Economics and Political Science - Department of Social - Science Computing; Issued also as CD N2 - An important charateristic of human societies is that they are a result of dynamic processes - a society emerges from constant changes yielded by a set of interactions among its individuals . Moreover, people in a society vary greatly in their capabilities, desires, needs and knowledge, in contrast to most physical systems that are composed of similar or identical units UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -