Agent-based Computational Modelling

by Billair, Francesco C.; Fent, Thomas; Prskawetz, Alexia

• ISBN13: 9783790816402
• ISBN10: 379081640X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-15
• Publisher: Physica Verlag

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Agent-Based Computational Modelling: An Introduction
Francesco C. Billari, Thomas Fent, Alexia Prskawetz, Jürgen Scheffran	1	(16)
Socio-Economics
Agent-Based Modelling – A Methodology for the Analysis of Qualitative Development Processes
Andreas Pyka, Thomas Grebel	17	(20)
On the Analysis of Asymmetric Directed Communication Structures in Electronic Election Markets
Markus Franke, Andreas Geyer-Schulz, Bettina Hoser	37	(24)
Population and Demography
The Role of Assortative Mating on Population Growth in Contemporary Developed Societies
Mike Murphy	61	(24)
An Agent-Based Simulation Model of Age-at-Marriage Norms
Belinda Aparicio Diaz, Thomas Fent	85	(32)
The Strength of Social Interactions and Obesity among Women
Mary A. Burke, Frank Heiland	117	(22)
Ecology and Environment
Agent-Based Models in Ecology: Patterns and Alternative Theories of Adaptive Behaviour
Volker Grimm, Steven F. Railsback	139	(14)
Agent-Based Modelling of Self-Organisation Processes to Support Adaptive Forest Management
Ernst Gebetsroither, Alexander Kaufmann, Ute Gigler, Andreas Resetarits	153	(20)
Vampire Bats & The Micro-Macro Link
Rosaria Conte, Mario Paolucci, Gennaro Di Tosto	173	(22)
General Aspects
How Are Physical and Social Spaces Related? – Cognitive Agents as the Necessary "Glue"
Bruce Edmonds	195	(20)
Agent Design for Agent-Based Modelling
Jim Doran	215	(10)
List of Contributors	225