If you enjoyed Josh Epstein and Robert Axtell’s Growing Artificial Societies, you’ll love Epstein’s newer work which “consolidates his interdisciplinary research activities in the last decade.” The book begins with some foundational material which lays out Epstein’s notion of generative social science in which one “grows a phenomenon of interest in an artificial society of interacting agents,” and then applies his theory in a series of chapters that provide a number of interdisciplinary examples, including civil violence, evolution of norms, and organizational adaptation. Even better, the book comes with a CD which offers movies of core model runs and programs for exploring the various models.
Joshua M. Epstein, Generative Social Science: Studies in Agent-Based Computational Modeling (Princeton University Press, 2006).
Joshua M. Epstein and Robert L. Axtell, Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science from the Bottom Up (The MIT Press, 1996).