Herbert Simon (1916–2001)

Herbert Simon and Agent-Based Computational Economics

In this article, we review the development of agent-based computational economics (ACE) in light of Herbert Simon’s lifetime contributions to a variety of scientific areas. We take an integrated view of Simon’s contributions to economics, computational-theoretic underpinnings of bounded rationality (algorithmic foundations of behavioral economics), artificial intelligence, expert systems, probl...

Herbert Simon. Artificial intelligence as a framework for understanding intuition

Herbert Simon made overlapping substantive contributions to the fields of economics, psychology, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, decision theory, and organization theory. Simon s work was motivated by the belief that neither the human mind, human thinking and decision making, nor human creativity need be mysterious. It was after he helped create ‘‘thinking’’ machines that Simon came...

Multidisciplinary creativity: the case of Herbert A. Simon

In the twentieth century, no person epitomized more dramatically the “Renaissance mind” than Herbert A. Simon (1916–2001). In a working life spanning over 60 years, Simon made seminal contributions to administrative theory, axiomatic foundations of physics, economics, sociology, econometrics, cognitive psychology, logic of scientific discovery, and artificial intelligence. Simon’s life of the m...

Models of Artificial Life - Herbert Simon and Evolutionary Computation

Herbert Simon is justly regarded as the father of artificial intelligence and even of the fields of computer science and cognitive science as we currently conceive them. His Nobel Prize was in economics, but he also made significant contributions to philosophy, political science, psychology, public policy, and beyond. Among his nearly a thousand publications, were many that dealt with issues of...

Herbert A. Simon: Administrative Behavior -how Organizations Can Be Understood in Terms of Decision Processes