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The present book describes the methodology to set up agent-based models and to study emerging patterns in complex adaptive systems resulting from multi-agent interaction. It offers the application of agent-based models in demography, social and economic sciences and environmental sciences. Examples include population dynamics, evolution of social norms, communication structures, patterns in eco-systems and socio-biology, natural resource management, spread of diseases and development processes. It presents and combines different approaches how to implement agent-based computational models and tools in an integrative manner that can be extended to other cases.
List of contents
Microsimulation of household cycles.- Agent-Based Computational Modelling: An Introduction.- Socio-Economics.- Agent-Based Modelling - A Methodology for the Analysis of Qualitative Development Processes.- On the Analysis of Asymmetric Directed Communication Structures in Electronic Election Markets.- Population and Demography.- The Role of Assortative Mating on Population Growth in Contemporary Developed Societies.- An Agent-Based Simulation Model of Age-at-Marriage Norms.- The Strength of Social Interactions and Obesity among Women.- Ecology and Environment.- Agent-Based Models in Ecology: Patterns and Alternative Theories of Adaptive Behaviour.- Agent-Based Modelling of Self-Organisation Processes to Support Adaptive Forest Management.- Vampire Bats & The Micro-Macro Link.- General Aspects.- How Are Physical and Social Spaces Related? - Cognitive Agents as the Necessary "Glue".- Agent Design for Agent-Based Modelling.
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From the reviews:
"Presenting and combining different approaches, the aim of the book is to describe the motivation for setting-up agent-based models and for studying emerging patterns in complex adaptive systems. … is well written and contains much useful information for scholars not familiar with agent-based modelling." (Petra Ahrweiler, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, April, 2007)
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From the reviews:
"Presenting and combining different approaches, the aim of the book is to describe the motivation for setting-up agent-based models and for studying emerging patterns in complex adaptive systems. ... is well written and contains much useful information for scholars not familiar with agent-based modelling." (Petra Ahrweiler, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, April, 2007)
