Multi-Agent-Based Simulation III: 4th International Workshop, MABS 2003, Melbourne, Australia, July 14, 2003. Revised Papers

✍ Scribed by Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo (auth.), David Hales, Bruce Edmonds, Emma Norling, Juliette Rouchier (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 218
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2927
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation, MABS 2003, held in Melbourne, Australia as part of AAMAS 2003.

The 11 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited papers were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers are organized in topical sections on MABS techniques for MAS; economics, exchange, and influence in virtual worlds; MABS techniques for real-world modelling, and understanding and classifying MABS.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
Engineering Emergent Behaviour: A Vision....Pages 1-7
Employment Decisions Supporting Organizations of Autonomous Agents....Pages 8-25
Towards Verification and Validation in Multiagent-Based Systems and Simulations: Analyzing Different Learning Bargaining Agents....Pages 26-42
Weak Interaction and Strong Interaction in Agent Based Simulations....Pages 43-56
Using Qualitative Exchange Values to Improve the Modelling of Social Interactions....Pages 57-72
Bilateral Tradings with and without Strategic Thinking....Pages 73-88
Monetary Policy and Banks’ Loan Supply Rules to Harness Asset Bubbles and Crashes....Pages 89-105
Social Change: Exploring Design Influence....Pages 106-119
Social Prejudice: Cognitive Modelling and Simulation Findings....Pages 120-130
A Methodology for Eliciting and Modelling Stakeholders’ Representations with Agent Based Modelling....Pages 131-148
Modelling a European Decision Making Process with Heterogeneous Public Opinion and Lobbying: The Case of the Authorization Procedure for Placing Genetically Modified Organisms on the Market....Pages 149-166
Evaluation of Usability of Dial-a-Ride Systems by Social Simulation....Pages 167-181
The Strategy Hypercube: Exploring Strategy Space Using Agent-Based Models....Pages 182-192
A Classification of Paradigmatic Models for Agent-Based Social Simulation....Pages 193-208
Back Matter....Pages -

✦ Subjects

Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computer Communication Networks; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Simulation and Modeling; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences