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Managing Complexity: Practical Considerations in the Development and Application of ABMs to Contemporary Policy Challenges

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Editors:
  1. Mirsad Hadzikadic

    1. College of Computing and Informatics, Software and Information Systems, University of North Caroline, Charlotte, USA

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  2. Sean O’Brien

    1. Strategic Analysis Enterprises, Inc, Fairfax Station, USA

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  3. Moutaz Khouja

    1. The University of North Carolina at Char, Charlotte, USA

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Part of the book series: Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI, volume 504)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-7
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  2. Addressing Complex Challenges in an Interconnected World

    • Sean O’Brien, Mirsad Hadžikadić, Moutaz Khouja
    Pages 1-7

  3. Complexity: Where Does It Come from?

    • Sean O’Brien, Mirsad Hadžikadić, Moutaz Khouja
    Pages 9-17

  4. An Overview of Agent Based Models

    • Ted Carmichael
    Pages 19-28

  5. Running the System: Prediction and Intervention

    • Joseph Whitmeyer
    Pages 29-43

  6. The ACSES Model of Afghanistan: Introduction and Social Theories

    • Joseph Whitmeyer
    Pages 45-58

  7. The ACSES Model of Afghanistan: The Model Operation, Synthetic Population, Calibration, and Surprises

    • Joseph Whitmeyer
    Pages 59-83

  8. Implementation Influences

    • Mark Armstrong
    Pages 85-91

  9. Towards a Characterization and Systematic Evaluation Framework for Theories and Models of Human, Social, Behavioral, and Cultural Processes within Agent-Based Models

    • Auroop R. Ganguly, Joseph Whitmeyer, Olufemi Omitaomu, Peter Brecke, Mirsad Hadžikadić, Paul Gilman et al.
    Pages 93-136

  10. Lessons Learned from the ACSES Model

    • Joseph Whitmeyer
    Pages 137-143

  11. Advancing Social Science through Agent-Based Modeling

    • Joseph Whitmeyer
    Pages 145-153

  12. Additional Problems

    • Ted Carmichael
    Pages 155-168

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 169-172
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About this book

This book emerged out of a project initiated and funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) that sought to build on efforts to transform agent-based models into platforms for predicting and evaluating policy responses to real world challenges around the world.  It began with the observation that social science theories of human behavior are often used to estimate the consequences of alternative policy responses to important issues and challenges.  However, alternative theories that remain subject to contradictory claims are ill suited to inform policy.

The vision behind the DARPA project was to mine the social sciences literature for alternative theories of human behavior, and then formalize, instantiate, and integrate them within the context of an agent-based modeling system. The research team developed an experimental platform to evaluate the conditions under which alternative theories and groups of theories applied. The end result was a proof of concept developed from the ground up of social knowledge that could be used as an informative guide for policy analysis. This book describes in detail the process of designing and implementing a pilot system that helped DARPA assess the feasibility of a computational social science project on a large scale. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • College of Computing and Informatics, Software and Information Systems, University of North Caroline, Charlotte, USA

    Mirsad Hadzikadic

  • Strategic Analysis Enterprises, Inc, Fairfax Station, USA

    Sean O’Brien

  • The University of North Carolina at Char, Charlotte, USA

    Moutaz Khouja

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Managing Complexity: Practical Considerations in the Development and Application of ABMs to Contemporary Policy Challenges

  • Editors: Mirsad Hadzikadic, Sean O’Brien, Moutaz Khouja

  • Series Title: Studies in Computational Intelligence

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39295-5

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-39294-8Published: 24 July 2013

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-43598-0Published: 09 August 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-39295-5Published: 11 July 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1860-949X

  • Series E-ISSN: 1860-9503

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 173

  • Topics: Computational Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence

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