Multi-Agent-Based Simulation XI : International Workshop, MABS 2010, Toronto, Canada, May 10-14, 2010, Revised Selected Papers

by Bosse, Tibor; Geller, Armando; Jonker, Catholijn M.

• ISBN13: 9783642183447
• ISBN10: 3642183441
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-07-14
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

This volume contains a selection of the papers presented at the 11th International Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation (MABS 2010), a workshop co-located with the 9th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), which was held on May 10-14, 2010 in Toronto, Canada. The 11 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions. The workshop has been an important source of inspiration for the body of knowledge that has been produced in the field of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). As illustrated by this volume, the workshop continues to bring together researchers interested in MAS engineering with researchers focused on finding efficient ways to model complex social systems in social, economic and organizational areas. In all these areas, agent theories, metaphors, models, analyses, experimental designs, empirical studies, and methodological principles all converge into simulation as a way of achieving explanations and predictions, exploring and testing hypotheses, and producing better designs and systems.

Table of Contents

Models and Frameworks for MAS Development
Situational Programming: Agent Behavior Visual Programming for MABS Novices	p. 1
IRM4MLS: The Influence Reaction Model for Multi-Level Simulation	p. 16
Toward a Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Model of Agent Behavior in Multiagent Teams	p. 28
Exploring MAS Behaviors
Pheromones, Probabilities, and Multiple Futures	p. 44
Finding Forms of Flocking: Evolutionary Search in ABM Parameter-Spaces	p. 61
Game Theory and Information Sharing
On the Profitability of Incompetence	p. 76
Mechanisms for the Self-organization of Peer Groups in Agent Societies	p. 93
Multigame Dynamics: Structures and Strategies	p. 108
MAS in Economics and Negotiation
Microstructure Dynamics and Agent-Based Financial Markets	p. 121
Computational Modeling of Culture's Consequences	p. 131
Agent-Based Simulation Modelling of Housing Choice and Urban Regeneration Policy	p. 152
Author Index	p. 167
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