Agent-Based Computational Modelling Applications in Demography, Social, Economic and Environmental Sciences
Title:
Agent-Based Computational Modelling Applications in Demography, Social, Economic and Environmental Sciences
Author:
Billari, Francesco C. editor.
ISBN:
9783790817218
Physical Description:
X, 226 p. 95 illus. online resource.
Series:
Contributions to Economics,
Contents:
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.
Abstract:
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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Electronic Access:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-7908-1721-X