Multi-Agent-Based Simulation III: 4th International Workshop, MABS 2003, Melbourne, Australia, July 14th, 2003, Revised Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2927)

✍ Scribed by David Hales (editor), Bruce Edmonds (editor), Emma Norling (editor), Juliette Rouchier (editor)

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 223
• Edition: 2003
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume presents revised versions of the papers presented at the 4th International Workshop on Multi-agent Based Simulation (MABS 2003), a workshop federated with the2ndInternationalJointConferenceonAutonomousAgentsandMulti-agentSystems (AAMAS 2003), which was held in Melbourne, Australia, in July 2003. In addition to the papers presented at the workshop, three additional papers have been included in this volume (Robertson, Noto et al., and Marietto et al.). Multiagent Based Simulation (MABS) is a vibrant interdisciplinary area which brings together researchers active within the agent-based social simulation community (ABSS) and the multiagent systems community (MAS). These two communities have different, indeed somewhat divergent, goals. The focus of ABSS is on simulating and synthesizing social behaviors in order to understand observed social systems (human, animal and even electronic) via the development and testing of new models and c- cepts. MAS focuses instead on the solution of hard engineering problems related to the construction, deployment and ef?cient operation of multiagent-based systems.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
MABS Techniques for MAS
Engineering Emergent Behaviour: A Vision
Employment Decisions Supporting Organizations of Autonomous Agents
Towards Verification and Validation in Multiagent-Based Systems and Simulations: Analyzing Different Learning Bargaining Agents
Weak Interaction and Strong Interaction in Agent Based Simulations
Economics, Exchange, and Influence in Virtual Worlds
Using Qualitative Exchange Values to Improve the Modelling of Social Interactions
Bilateral Tradings with and without Strategic Thinking
Monetary Policy and Banks’ Loan Supply Rules to Harness Asset Bubbles and Crashes
Social Change: Exploring Design Influence
Social Prejudice: Cognitive Modelling and Simulation Findings
MABS Techniques for Real World Modelling
A Methodology for Eliciting and Modelling Stakeholders’ Representations with Agent Based Modelling
Modelling a European Decision Making Process with Heterogeneous Public Opinion and Lobbying: The Case of the Authorization Procedure for Placing Genetically Modified…
Evaluation of Usability of Dial-a-Ride Systems by Social Simulation
The Strategy Hypercube: Exploring Strategy Space Using Agent-Based Models
Understanding and Classifying MABS
A Classification of Paradigmatic Models for Agent-Based Social Simulation
Author Index