Throughout history, distinct cultures continuously interact. The main observation that motivated this study is the occurrence of parallel co-adaptive changes within these cultures. These co-adaptive changes are either cooperative or antagonistic in nature. In addition, on the long run, these changes lead to either a domination of one culture over the other(s), or a balanced situation in which all cultures coexist.The main aim of this book is to study and understand this phenomenon from a "Systemic Approach". The contributions of this thesis include: First, formulating a conceptual framework for Cultures Co-evolution System. Second, proposing a computational model to simulate the dynamics underlying Cultures Co-evolution. Third, building a tailored software to experiment with the proposed model.

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Dr. Amira Tawadros is an Associate Professor of Socio-Computing at the faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, Egypt. Her scientific research lies mainly in the field of Computational Social Sciences, Artificial Intelligence Models, Toleration, Memetics, Social Network Analysis, and Decision Support Systems.