Simulating Interacting Agents and Social Phenomena

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Norms, Diffusion and Social Networks

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. A Classification of Normative Architectures

      • Martin Neumann

      Pages 3-18

   3. The Complex Loop of Norm Emergence: A Simulation Model

      • Giulia Andrighetto, Marco Campennì, Federico Cecconi, Rosaria Conte

      Pages 19-35

   4. A Social Network Model of Direct Versus Indirect Reciprocity in a Corrections-Based Therapeutic Community

      • Nathan Doogan, Keith Warren, Danielle Hiance, Jessica HLinley

      Pages 37-47

   5. A Force-Directed Layout for Community Detection with Automatic Clusterization

      • Patrick J. McSweeney, Kishan Mehrotra, Jae C. Oh

      Pages 49-63

   6. Comparing Two Sexual Mixing Schemes for Modelling the Spread of HIV/AIDS

      • Shah Jamal Alam, Ruth Meyer

      Pages 65-76

   7. Exploring Context Permeability in Multiple Social Networks

      • Luis Antunes, João Balsa, Paulo Urbano, Helder Coelho

      Pages 77-87

   8. A Naturalistic Multi-Agent Model of Word-of-Mouth Dynamics

      • Samuel Thiriot, Jean-Daniel Kant

      Pages 89-99

3. Economy, Market and Organization

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101

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   2. Introducing Preference Heterogeneity into a Monocentric Urban Model: An Agent-Based Land Market Model

      • Tatiana Filatova, Dawn C. Parker, Anne van der Veen

      Pages 101-117

   3. The Agent-Based Double Auction Markets: 15 Years On

      • Shu-Heng Chen, Chung-Ching Tai

      Pages 119-136

   4. A Doubly Structural Network Model and Analysis on the Emergence of Money

      • Masaaki Kunigami, Masato Kobayashi, Satoru Yamadera, Takashi Yamada, Takao Terano

      Pages 137-149

   5. Analysis of Knowledge Retrieval Heuristics in Concurrent Software Development Teams

      • Shinsuke Sakuma, Yusuke Goto, Shingo Takahashi

      Pages 151-163

   6. Reputation and Economic Performance in Industrial Districts: Modelling Social Complexity Through Multi-Agent Systems

      • Gennaro Di Tosto, Francesca Giardini, Rosaria Conte

      Pages 165-176

4. Modeling Approaches and Programming Environments

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-177

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   2. Injecting Data into Agent-Based Simulation

      • Samer Hassan, Juan Pavón, Luis Antunes, Nigel Gilbert

      Pages 177-191

   3. The MASON HouseholdsWorld Model of Pastoral Nomad Societies

      • Claudio Cioffi-Revilla, J. Daniel Rogers, Maciek Latek

      Pages 193-204

   4. Effects of Adding a Simple Rule to a Reactive Simulation

      • Pablo Lucas

      Pages 205-211

   5. Applying Image Texture Measures to Describe Segregation in Agent-Based Modeling

      • Kathleen Pérez-López

      Pages 213-225

Agent-based modeling and social simulation have emerged as an interdisciplinary area of social science that includes computational economics, organizational science, social dynamics, and complex systems. This area contributes to enriching our understanding of the fundamental processes of social phenomena caused by complex interactions among agents. Bringing together diverse approaches to social simulation and research agendas, this book presents a unique collection of contributions from the Second World Congress on Social Simulation, held in 2008 at George Mason University in Washington DC, USA. This book in particular includes articles on norms, diffusion, social networks, economy, markets and organizations, computational modeling, and programming environments, providing new hypotheses and theories, new simulation experiments compared with various data sets, and new methods for model design and development. These works emerged from a global and interdisciplinary scientific community of the three regional scientific associations for social simulation: the North American Association for Computational Social and Organizational  Science (NAACSOS; now the Computational Social Science Society, CSSS), the European Social Simulation Association (ESSA), and the Pacific Asian Association for Agent-bBased  Approach in Social Systems Sciences (PAAA).

• Agent Based Social Simulation
• agent-based approach
• agent-based model
• complex system
• complex systems
• computational economic & organization theory
• open agent-based modeling consortium
• complexity

• Department of Informatics and Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Japan

  Keiki Takadama

• Center for Social Complexity, George Mason University, Fairfax, USA

  Claudio Cioffi-Revilla

• Head of LISC (Laboratoire d’Ingénierie des Systèmes Complexes), Aubière Cedex 1, France

  Guillaume Deffuant

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