Managing business complexity
Subtitle: discovering strategic solutions with agent-based modeling and simulation
By: Michael J. North and Charles M. Macal.
Contributors: Macal, Charles M.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9780195172119
Subjects: Management information systems; Distributed artificial intelligence
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The challenge; title: The ABMS paradigm; title: All about agents; title: The roots of ABMS; title: The role of ABMS; title: Discovering agents and agent behaviors; title: Office ABMS; title: How to do desktop ABMS; title: How to do participatory ABMS; title: How to do large-scale ABMS; title: ABMS verification and validation; title: A visual approach to data collection and cleaning; title: Understanding and presenting ABMS results; title: ABMS project management; title: Rising to the challenge.