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Part of the book series: Contributions to Economics (CE)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Microsimulation of household cycles
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Back Matter
About this book
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.
Reviews
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)
Editors and Affiliations
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Instituto di Metodi Quantitativi, Università Bocconi & IGIER, Milano, Italy
Francesco C. Billari
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Vienna Institute of Demography, Vienna, Austria
Thomas Fent, Alexia Prskawetz
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ACDIS, University of Illinois, Champaign, USA
Jürgen Scheffran
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Agent-Based Computational Modelling
Book Subtitle: Applications in Demography, Social, Economic and Environmental Sciences
Editors: Francesco C. Billari, Thomas Fent, Alexia Prskawetz, Jürgen Scheffran
Series Title: Contributions to Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-7908-1721-X
Publisher: Physica Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Physica-Verlag Heidelberg 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-7908-1640-2
eBook ISBN: 978-3-7908-1721-8
Series ISSN: 1431-1933
Series E-ISSN: 2197-7178
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 226
Number of Illustrations: 95 b/w illustrations
Topics: Economics, general, Population Economics, Methodology of the Social Sciences, Demography, Simulation and Modeling, Environmental Economics