Francesco C. Billari / Thomas Fent / Alexia Prskawetz / Jürgen Scheffran (eds.)

Agent-Based Computational Modelling

Applications in Demography, Social, Economic and Environmental Sciences
Herausgegeben:Billari, Francesco C.; Fent, Thomas; Prskawetz, Alexia; Scheffran, Jürgen

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Contributions to Economics
• Verlag: Physica / Physica-Verlag / Physica-Verlag HD
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 11531616, 978-3-7908-1640-2
• 2006
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 366g
• ISBN-13: 9783790816402
• ISBN-10: 379081640X
• Artikelnr.: 20754661

Autorenporträt

Francesco C. Billari, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy / Thomas Fent, Vienna Institute of Demography, Austria / Alexia Prskawetz, Vienna Institute of Demography, Austria / Jürgen Scheffran, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL, USA

Inhaltsangabe

Microsimulation of household cycles.- Agent-Based Computational Modelling: An Introduction.- Socio-Economics.- Agent-Based Modelling - A Methodology for the Analysis of Qualitative Development Processes.- On the Analysis of Asymmetric Directed Communication Structures in Electronic Election Markets.- Population and Demography.- The Role of Assortative Mating on Population Growth in Contemporary Developed Societies.- An Agent-Based Simulation Model of Age-at-Marriage Norms.- The Strength of Social Interactions and Obesity among Women.- Ecology and Environment.- Agent-Based Models in Ecology: Patterns and Alternative Theories of Adaptive Behaviour.- Agent-Based Modelling of Self-Organisation Processes to Support Adaptive Forest Management.- Vampire Bats & The Micro-Macro Link.- General Aspects.- How Are Physical and Social Spaces Related? - Cognitive Agents as the Necessary "Glue".- Agent Design for Agent-Based Modelling.

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Rezensionen

From the reviews:

"Presenting and combining different approaches, the aim of the book is to describe the motivation for setting-up agent-based models and for studying emerging patterns in complex adaptive systems. ... is well written and contains much useful information for scholars not familiar with agent-based modelling." (Petra Ahrweiler, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, April, 2007)