Multi-Agent Systems and Agent-Based Simulation

1. Front Matter

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2. MAS and Social Simulation: A Suitable Commitment

   • Rosaria Conte, Nigel Gilbert, Jaime Simão Sichman

   Pages 1-9

3. Agent-Based Modeling vs. Equation-Based Modeling: A Case Study and Users’ Guide

   • H. Van Dyke Parunak, Robert Savit, Rick L. Riolo

   Pages 10-25

4. Simulating with Cognitive Agents: The Importance of Cognitive Emergence

   • Cristiano Castelfranchi

   Pages 26-44

5. Social Simulation Models and Reality: Three Approaches

   • Scott Moss

   Pages 45-60

6. Economic Theory of Renewable Resource Management: A Multi-agent System Approach

   • M. Antona, F. Bousquet, C. LePage, J. Weber, A. Karsenty, P. Guizol

   Pages 61-78

7. ABCDE: Agent Based Chaotic Dynamic Emergence

   • Pietro Terna

   Pages 79-94

8. Formalising the Link between Worker and Society in Honey Bee Colonies

   • David J. T. Sumpter, D. S. Broomhead

   Pages 95-110

9. Non-merchant Economy and Multi-agent System: An Analysis of Structuring Exchanges

   • J. Rouchier, F. Bousquet

   Pages 111-123

10. Dynamics of Internal and Global Structure through Linguistic Interactions

    • Takashi Hashimoto

    Pages 124-139

11. Stereotyping, Groups and Cultural Evolution: A Case of “Second Order Emergence”?

    • David Hales

    Pages 140-155

12. Finding the Best Partner: The PART-NET System

    • R. Conte, R. Pedone

    Pages 156-168

13. Dependence Relations Between Roles in a Multi-Agent System

    • Mahdi Hannoun, Jaime Simão Sichman, Olivier Boissier, Claudette Sayettat

    Pages 169-182

14. When Agents Emerge from Agents: Introducing Multi-scale Viewpoints in Multi-agent Simulations

    • David Servat, Edith Perrier, Jean-Pierre Treuil, Alexis Drogoul

    Pages 183-198

15. ACTS in Action: Sim-ACTS – A Simulation Model Based on ACTS Theory

    • Harko Verhagen

    Pages 199-209

16. Towards Modeling Other Agents: A Simulation-Based Study

    • Leonardo Garrido, Ramón Brena, Katia Sycara

    Pages 210-225

17. Multi-agent Architecture Integrating Heterogeneous Models of Dynamical Processes: The Representation of Time

    • Edem Fianyo, Jean-Pierre Treuil, Edith Perrier, Yves Demazeau

    Pages 226-236

18. Back Matter

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Fifteen papers were presented at the first workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Agent-Based Simulation held as part of the Agents World conference in Paris, July 4-- 6, 1998. The workshop was designed to bring together two developing communities: the multi-agent systems researchers who were the core participants at Agents World, and social scientists interested in using MAS as a research tool. Most of the social sciences were represented, with contributions touching on sociology, management science, economics, psychology, environmental science, ecology, and linguistics. The workshop was organised in association with SimSoc, an informal group of social scientists who have arranged an irregular series of influential workshops on using simulation in the social sciences beginning in 1992. While the papers were quite heterogeneous in substantive domain and in their disciplinary origins, there were several themes which recurred during the workshop. One of these was considered in more depth in a round table discussion led by Jim Doran at the end of the workshop on 'Representing cognition for social simulation', which addressed the issue of whether and how cognition should be modelled. Quite divergent views were expressed, with some participants denying that individual cognition needed to be modelled at all, and others arguing that cognition must be at the centre of social simulation.

• Multi-agent system
• Multi-agent systems
• agent-based model
• agent-based modelling
• agent-based simulation
• cognitive emergence
• evolution
• modeling
• service-oriented computing
• simulation
• social simulation

• Laboratório de Técnicas Inteligentes (LTI) Escola Politécnica (EP), Universidade de São Paulo (USP),  

  Jaime Simão Sichman

• Institute for Cognitive Science and Technology, Rome, Italy

  Rosaria Conte

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  Nigel Gilbert

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