Meeting the Challenge of Social Problems via Agent-Based Simulation

Post-Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Agent-Based Approaches in Economic and Social Complex Systems
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-4-431-67982-0
Verlag: Springer Japan

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 330 g

Social sciences are moving to the next stage. One ofthe promising methodologies is agent-based computer simulation. In a series ofworkshops on Agent-Based Ap­ proaches in Economic and Social Complex Systems (AESCS), ground-breaking studies of complex economic and social phenomena using computational approaches are being presented and discussed. This volume contains papers selected from pre­ sentations at the AESCS '02 held at the University ofTokyo, Japan, on August 16, 2002. The workshop was the second in a series ofPacific Rim activities in interdis­ ciplinary areas of social and computational sciences, the first workshop having been held in Shimane, Japan, May 21-22, 2001. The objective of AESCS workshops is to promote worldwide multidisciplinary activities in multiagent computational economics, organizational science, social dynamics, and complex systems. AESCS brings together researchers and practitio­ ners from diverse fields, such as computer science, economics, physics, sociology, psychology, and complex theory, in order to understand emergent and collective phenomena in economic, organizational, and social systems.AESCS also provides an opportunity for discussion ofthe effectiveness and limitations ofcomputational models and methodologies for the social sciences. The second AESCS workshop focused on the importance ofcumulative progress in agent-based simulation in the social sciences through discussions ofcommon tasks, standard computational models, replication and validation issues, and evalu­ ation and verification criteria for the results.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Terano, T.

Takadama, K.

Deguchi, H.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Modellierung & Simulation
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Professionelle Anwendung Computersimulation & Modelle, 3-D Graphik
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Künstliche Intelligenz
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I: Economic Systems.- Economics as Distributed Computation.- Dynamic Resource Allocation of Investment and Competitive Growth: R&D Investment and Capital Investment.- Wealth Distribution on Scale-Free Networks.- II: Marketing and Management.- U-Mart: An Artificial Market Testbed for Economics and Multiagent Systems.- The Statistical Properties of Price Fluctuation by Computer Agent in U-Mart Virtual Futures Market Simulator.- Study on a Dynamic Resource Allocation for a Communication Network Based on a Market-based Model.- Human-Agent Participation in a Business Simulator.- A Role of Micro-macro Loop for Knowledge Creation by Heterogeneous Agents.- How to Share Knowledge Effectively?.- III: Social Systems and Methodology.- Agent-Based Computational Macro-economics: A Survey.- The X-MAS SYSTEM: Toward Simulation Systems for Cross-model-validation in Multiagent-Based Simulations.- A Study on Pedestrian Flow by Using an Agent Model — A Simulation Analysis on the Asagiri Overpass Accident, 2001 —.- Author Index.- Keyword Index.