Agent-Based Computational Demography

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-IX

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2. Introduction: Agent-Based Computational Demography

   • Francesco C. Billari, Fausta Ongaro, Alexia Prskawetz

   Pages 1-17

3. Data, Models, Theory and Reality: The Structure of Demographic Knowledge

   • Thomas K. Burch

   Pages 19-40

4. The Role of Agent-Based Modelling in Demographic Explanation

   • Edmund Chattoe

   Pages 41-54

5. Diffusion Processes in Demographic Transitions: A Prospect on Using Multi Agent Simulation to Explore the Role of Cognitive Strategies and Social Interactions

   • Wander Jager, Marco A. Janssen

   Pages 55-72

6. The Collapse of the Berlin Wall: Simulating State-Level East to West German Migration Patterns

   • Frank Heiland

   Pages 73-96

7. Agent-Based Modeling of Householders’ Migration Behavior and Its Consequences

   • Itzhak Benenson, Itzhak Orner, Erez Hatna

   Pages 97-115

8. Population-Wide Marriage Patterns Produced by Individual Mate-Search Heuristics

   • Peter M. Todd, Francesco C. Billari

   Pages 117-137

9. On the Cultural Evolution of Age-at-Marriage Norms

   • Francesco C. Billari, Alexia Prskawetz, Johannes Fürnkranz

   Pages 139-157

10. Bringing Behavior Back into Micro-Simulation: Feedback Mechanisms in Demographic Models

    • Mike Murphy

    Pages 159-174

11. Consequences of Mortality Crises in Pre-Modern European Towns: A Multiagent-Based Simulation Approach

    • Ulf Christian Ewert, Mathias Roehl, Adelinde M. Uhrmacher

    Pages 175-196

12. Agents, Hierarchies and Sustainability

    • Andreas König, Michael Möhring, Klaus G. Troitzsch

    Pages 197-210

Agent-Based Computational Demography (ABCD) aims at starting a new stream of research among social scientists whose interests lie in understanding demographic behaviour. The book takes a micro-demographic (agent-based) perspective and illustrates the potentialities of computer simulation as an aid in theory building. The chapters of the book, written by leading experts either in demography or in agent-based modelling, address several key questions. Why do we need agent-based computational demography? How can ABCD be applied to the study of migrations, family demography, and historical demography? What are the peculiarities of agent-based models as applied to the demography of human populations? ABCD is of interest to all scientists interested in studying demographic behaviour, as well as to computer scientists and modellers who are looking for a promising field of application.

• Agent-based computational demography
• Demographic behaviour
• Demographic transition
• Demography
• Historical Demography
• Nation
• Simulation
• agent-based modelling
• population
• population economics
• social simulation

• Istituto di Metodi Quantitativi, Università Bocconi, Milano, Italy

  Francesco C. Billari

• Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany

  Alexia Prskawetz

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