Agent-Based Computational Modelling: Applications in Demography, Social, Economic and Environmental Sciences

✍ Scribed by Francesco C. Billari, Thomas Fent, Alexia Prskawetz, Jürgen Scheffran (eds.)

Publisher: Physica-Verlag Heidelberg
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Leaves: 231
Series: Contributions to Economics
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The present book describes the methodology to set up agent-based models and to study emerging patterns in complex adaptive systems resulting from multi-agent interaction. It offers the application of agent-based models in demography, social and economic sciences and environmental sciences. Examples include population dynamics, evolution of social norms, communication structures, patterns in eco-systems and socio-biology, natural resource management, spread of diseases and development processes. It presents and combines different approaches how to implement agent-based computational models and tools in an integrative manner that can be extended to other cases.

✦ Table of Contents

Agent-Based Computational Modelling: An Introduction....Pages 1-16
Agent-Based Modelling — A Methodology for the Analysis of Qualitative Development Processes....Pages 17-35
On the Analysis of Asymmetric Directed Communication Structures in Electronic Election Markets....Pages 37-59
The Role of Assortative Mating on Population Growth in Contemporary Developed Societies....Pages 61-84
An Agent-Based Simulation Model of Age-at-Marriage Norms....Pages 85-116
The Strength of Social Interactions and Obesity among Women....Pages 117-137
Agent-Based Models in Ecology: Patterns and Alternative Theories of Adaptive Behaviour....Pages 139-152
Agent-Based Modelling of Self-Organisation Processes to Support Adaptive Forest Management....Pages 153-172
Vampire Bats & The Micro-Macro Link....Pages 173-194
How Are Physical and Social Spaces Related? — Cognitive Agents as the Necessary “Glue”....Pages 195-214
Agent Design for Agent-Based Modelling....Pages 215-223

✦ Subjects

Population Economics; Methodology of the Social Sciences; Demography; Simulation and Modeling; Environmental Economics; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences

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