Agent-Based Computational Demography: Using Simulation to Improve Our Understanding of Demographic Behaviour

✍ Scribed by Francesco C. Billari, Fausta Ongaro (auth.), Prof. Dr. Francesco C. Billari, Dr. habil. Alexia Prskawetz (eds.)

Publisher: Physica-Verlag Heidelberg
Year: 2003
Tongue: English
Leaves: 214
Series: Contributions to Economics
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-IX
Introduction: Agent-Based Computational Demography....Pages 1-17
Data, Models, Theory and Reality: The Structure of Demographic Knowledge....Pages 19-40
The Role of Agent-Based Modelling in Demographic Explanation....Pages 41-54
Diffusion Processes in Demographic Transitions: A Prospect on Using Multi Agent Simulation to Explore the Role of Cognitive Strategies and Social Interactions....Pages 55-72
The Collapse of the Berlin Wall: Simulating State-Level East to West German Migration Patterns....Pages 73-96
Agent-Based Modeling of Householders’ Migration Behavior and Its Consequences....Pages 97-115
Population-Wide Marriage Patterns Produced by Individual Mate-Search Heuristics....Pages 117-137
On the Cultural Evolution of Age-at-Marriage Norms....Pages 139-157
Bringing Behavior Back into Micro-Simulation: Feedback Mechanisms in Demographic Models....Pages 159-174
Consequences of Mortality Crises in Pre-Modern European Towns: A Multiagent-Based Simulation Approach....Pages 175-196
Agents, Hierarchies and Sustainability....Pages 197-210

✦ Subjects

Population Economics; Demography; Simulation and Modeling; Sociology, general

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