Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation

✍ Scribed by Simon J. E. Taylor (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 328
• Series: The OR Essentials series
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introducing agent-based modeling and simulation....Pages 1-10
Tutorial on agent-based modeling and simulation....Pages 11-31
Some insights into the emergence of agent-based modeling....Pages 32-44
An application of agent-based simulation to the management of hospital-acquired infection....Pages 45-60
An agent-based simulation approach for the new product diffusion of a novel biomass fuel....Pages 61-77
Agent-based modeling and simulation of urban evacuation: relative effectiveness of simultaneous and staged evacuation strategies....Pages 78-96
Towards the development of a simulator for investigating the impact of people management practices on retail performance....Pages 97-132
A multi-agent simulation of the pharmaceutical supply chain....Pages 133-154
Workflow scheduling using multi-agent systems in a dynamically changing environment....Pages 155-184
Credit risk: an agent-based model of post-credit decision actions and credit losses in banks....Pages 185-207
The development of new infantry tactics during the early eighteenth century: a computer simulation approach to modern military history....Pages 208-230
A generic testing framework for agent-based simulation models....Pages 231-270
Successful approaches for teaching agent-based simulation....Pages 271-290
Discrete-event simulation is alive and kicking!....Pages 291-306
Back Matter....Pages 307-314

✦ Subjects

Business Strategy/Leadership; Operations Management; International Business; Organization; International Economics; Operation Research/Decision Theory