Agent-Based Computational Modelling: An Introduction

Francesco Billari, Thomas Fent, Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz and Jürgen Scheffran ()
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Jürgen Scheffran: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

A chapter in Agent-Based Computational Modelling, 2006, pp 1-16 from Springer

Abstract: Summary Agent-based models (ABMs) are increasingly used in studying complex adaptive systems. Micro-level interactions between heterogeneous agents are at the heart of recent advances in modelling of problems in the social sciences, including economics, political science, sociology, geography and demography, and related disciplines such as ecology and environmental sciences. Scientific journals and societies related to ABMs have flourished. Some of the trends will be discussed, both in terms of the underlying principles and the fields of application, some of which are introduced in the contributions to this book.

Keywords: Assortative Mating; Representative Agent; Complex Adaptive System; Heterogeneous Agent; Mainstream Economic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1007/3-7908-1721-X_1

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