Multi-Agent-Based Simulation

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-VIII

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2. Editorial Introduction

   1. Editorial Introduction: Messy Systems ‐ The Target for Multi Agent Based Simulation

      • Scott Moss

      Pages 1-14

3. Model Design Issues

   1. The Use of Models - Making MABS More Informative

      • Bruce Edmonds

      Pages 15-32

   2. Effects of Interaction Topology and Activation Regime in Several Multi-Agent Systems

      • Robert Axtell

      Pages 33-48

   3. Simulating Emergence and Downward Causation in Small Groups

      • R. Keith Sawyer

      Pages 49-67

4. Applications

   1. Modeling a Virtual Food Court Using DECAF

      • Foster McGeary, Keith Decker

      Pages 68-81

   2. How to Combine Reactivity and Anticipation: The Case of Conflicts Resolution in a Simulated Road Traffic

      • Sameh El hadouaj, Alexis Drogoul, Stéphane Espié

      Pages 82-96

   3. Multi Agent Based Simulation: Beyond Social Simulation

      • Paul Davidsson

      Pages 97-107

   4. A Multi-Agent Based Simulation of Sand Piles in a Static Equilibrium

      • Laurent Breton, Jean-Daniel Zucker, Eric Clément

      Pages 108-118

   5. Speeding Up CapBasED-AMS Activities through Multi-Agent Scheduling

      • Eleanna Kafeza, Kamalakar Karlapalem

      Pages 119-132

5. Simulating Social Relations and Processes

   1. The Micro-Macro Link in DAI and Sociology

      • Michael Schillo, Klaus Fischer, Christof T. Klein

      Pages 133-148

   2. The Simmel Effect: Imitation and Avoidance in Social Hierarchies

      • Roberto Pedone, Rosaria Conte

      Pages 149-156

   3. Cooperation without Memory or Space: Tags, Groups and the Prisoner’s Dilemma

      • David Hales

      Pages 157-166

   4. Sexual Attraction and Inter-sexual Dominance among Virtual Agents

      • Charlotte K. Hemelrijk

      Pages 167-180

   5. Multi-Agent Modelling and Renewable Resources Issues: The Relevance of Shared Representations for Interacting Agents

      • Juliette Rouchier, Francois Bousquet, Olivier Barreteau, Christophe Le Page, Jean-Luc Bonnefoy

      Pages 181-197

   6. Understanding Climate Policy Using Participatory Agent-Based Social Simulation

      • Thomas E. Downing, Scott Moss, Claudia Pahl-Wostl

      Pages 198-213

6. Formal Approaches

   1. Enhancing Multi-Agent Based Simulation with Human-Like Decision Making Strategies

      • Emma Norling, Liz Sonenberg, Ralph Rönnquist

      Pages 214-228

   2. Mapping the Envelope of Social Simulation Trajectories

      • Oswaldo Terán, Bruce Edmonds, Steve Wallis

      Pages 229-243

   3. Agent-Based Social Simulation with Coalitions in Social Reasoning

      • Nuno David, Jaime Simão Sichman, Helder Coelho

      Pages 244-265

7. Back Matter

   Pages 267-267

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This volume is based on papers accepted for the Second International Workshop on Multi-agent-based Simulation (MABS-2000)federated with the Fourth Int- national Conference on Multi Agent Systems (ICMAS-2000)held in Boston in July 2000. The purpose of MABS-2000 was to investigate and develop the synergy - tween software engineering for multi-agent systems and agent-based social s- ulation. The papers included in the MABS-2000 workshop were selected either because they explore how agent interaction can be used to build multi-agent s- tems or they o?er examples of problem-oriented (rather than technique-oriented) systems. No paper was selected if it speci?ed a model or an issue to make it ?t a previously chosen technique. All of the papers in the volume have been reviewed and in many cases revised since the workshop. Two papers (by Edmonds and by Hales)as well as the editorial introduction have been added to those accepted for the workshop. As editors and workshop organisers, we are very grateful to the participants who engaged enthusiastically in the discussions about both individual papers and the issues facing the MABS community. Issues raised and positions taken in those discussions are reported in the editorial introduction. We are also grateful to the authors for their punctuality and the grace with which they received and responded to editorial comments and requests. Klaus Fischer, the ICMAS-2000 workshops chair, was exceptionally patient and diplomatic in reconciling our demands with the resources available.

• Multi-agent system
• Multi-agent systems
• agent communities
• agent cooperation
• agent coordination
• agent-based simulation
• agent-based social simulation
• agent-based software engineering
• artificial societies
• design
• model
• mulit-agent systems engineering
• simulation
• software engineering
• structured analysis

From the reviews:

"This volume is based on papers accepted for the Second International Workshop on Multi-Agent-based Simulation … . The editorial efforts, however, make it a reader … which can successfully be used in a university seminar … . Our students admitted that they had learnt a lot in reading, reporting and reviewing the selected papers … . All other readers will certainly draw the same profit from reading this book. In the end, we can conclude our review with a recommendation to use this book in more university seminars … ." (Michael Möhring and Klaus G. Tritzsch, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, April, 2002)

• Centre for Policy Modelling, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK

  Scott Moss

• Department of Software Engineering and Computer Science, University of Karlskrona/Ronneby, Ronneby, Sweden

  Paul Davidsson

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