Simulating interacting agents and social phenomena
Subtitle: the second world congress
By: Keiki Takadama, Claudio Cioffi-Revilla, Guillaume Deffuant, editors
Contributors: Deffuant, Guillaume; Revilla, Claudio Cioffi; Takadama, Keiki, 1970-
Series: Agent-based social system; Agent-based social systems -- v. 7
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Tokyo; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9784431997801
Subjects: Simulation methods; Social sciences
Description: Agent-based modeling and social simulation have emerged as an interdisciplinary area of social science that includes computational economics, organizational science, social dynamics, and complex systems. This area contributes to enriching our understanding of the fundamental processes of social phenomena caused by complex interactions among agents. Bringing together diverse approaches to social simulation and research agendas, this book presents a unique collection of contributions from the Second World Congress on Social Simulation, held in 2008 at George Mason University in Washington DC, USA. This book in particular includes articles on norms, diffusion, social networks, economy, markets and organizations, computational modeling, and programming environments, providing new hypotheses and theories, new simulation experiments compared with various data sets, and new methods for model design and development. These works emerged from a global and interdisciplinary scientific community of the three regional scientific associations for social simulation: the North American Association for Computational Social and Organizational  Science (NAACSOS; now the Computational Social Science Society, CSSS), the European Social Simulation Association (ESSA), and the Pacific Asian Association for Agent-Based Approach in Social Systems Sciences (PAAA).
Notes: Post-proceedings of the Second World Congress on Social Simulation (WCSS '08). Held at George Mason University in the United States, 14-17 July, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I Norms, Diffusion and Social Networks.-A Classification of Normative Architectures / Martin Neumann.; title: The Complex Loop of Norm Emergence: A Simulation Model / Giulia Andrighetto, Marco Campennì, Federico Cecconi, and Rosaria Conte.; title: A Social Network Model of Direct Versus Indirect Reciprocity in a Corrections-Based Therapeutic Community / Nathan Doogan, Keith Warren, Danielle Hiance, and Jessica Linley.; title: A Force-Directed Layout for Community Detection with Automatic Clusterization / P.J. McSweeney, Kishan Mehrotra, and Jae C. Oh.; title: Comparing Two Sexual Mixing Schemes for Modelling the Spread of HIV/AIDS / Shah Jamal Alam and Ruth Meyer.; title: Exploring Context Permeability in Multiple Social Networks / Luis Antunes, João Balsa, Paulo Urbano, and Helder Coelho.; title: A Naturalistic Multi-Agent Model of Word-of-Mouth Dynamics / Samuel Thiriot and Jean-Daniel Kant.; title: Part II Economy, Market and Organization.; title: Introducing Preference Heterogeneity into a Monocentric Urban Model: An Agent-Based Land Market Model / Tatiana Filatova, Dawn C. Parker, and Anne van der Veen.; title: The Agent-Based Double Auction Markets: 15 Years On / Shu-Heng Chen and Chung-Ching Tai.; title: A Doubly Structural Network Model and Analysis on the Emergence of Money / Masaaki Kunigami, Masato Kobayashi, Satoru Yamadera, Takashi Yamada, and Takao Terano.; title: Analysis of Knowledge Retrieval Heuristics in Concurrent Software Development Teams / Shinsuke Sakuma, Yusuke Goto, and Shingo Takahashi.; title: Reputation and Economic Performance in Industrial Districts: Modelling Social Complexity Through Multi-Agent Systems / Gennaro Di Tosto, Francesca Giardinia, and Rosaria Conte.; title: Part III Modeling Approaches and Programming Environments.; title: Injecting Data into Agent-Based Simulation / Samer Hassan, Juan Pavón, Luis Antunes, and Nigel Gilbert.; title: The MASON HouseholdsWorld Model of Pastoral Nomad Societies / Claudio Cioffi -Revilla, J. Daniel Rogers, and Maciek Latek.; title: Effects of Adding a Simple Emotion-Based Rule to a Reactive Simulation / Pablo Lucas.; title: Applying Image Texture Measures to Describe Segregation in Agent-Based Modeling / Kathleen Pérez-López.; title: Autonomous Tags: Language as Generative of Culture / Deborah Vakas Duong.; title: Virtual City Model for Simulating Social Phenomena / Manabu Ichikawa, Yuhsuke Koyama, and Hiroshi Deguchi.; title: Modeling Endogenous Coordination Using a Dynamic Language / Jonathan Ozik and Michael North.