Agent-Based Computational Modelling [electronic resource] : Applications in Demography, Social, Economic and Environmental Sciences /
Billari, Francesco C.editor.
Fent, Thomas.editor.
Prskawetz, Alexia.editor.
Scheffran, Jürgen.editor.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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.
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.
Economics.
Management science.
Population.
Social sciences.
Demography.
Computer simulation.
Environmental economics.
Economics, general.
Population Economics.
Methodology of the Social Sciences.
Demography.
Simulation and Modeling.
Environmental Economics.
Contributions to Economics