Managing Complexity: Practical Considerations in the Development and Application of ABMs to Contemporary Policy Challenges

This book emerged out of a project initiated and funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) that sought to build on efforts to transform agent-based models into platforms for predicting and evaluating policy responses to real world challenges around the world.  It began with the...

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Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Hadzikadic, Mirsad (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), O’Brien, Sean (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Khouja, Moutaz (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Σειρά:Studies in Computational Intelligence, 504
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
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505 0 |a Addressing Complex Challenges in an Interconnected World -- Complexity: Where Does It Come from? -- An Overview of Agent Based Models -- Running the System: Prediction and Intervention -- The ACSES Model of Afghanistan: Introduction and Social Theories -- The ACSES Model of Afghanistan: The Model Operation, Synthetic Population, Calibration, and Surprises -- Implementation Influences -- Towards a Characterization and Systematic Evaluation Framework for Theories and Models of Human, Social, Behavioral, and Cultural Processes Within Agent-Based Models -- Lessons Learned from the ACSES Model -- Advancing Social Science through Agent-Based Modeling -- Additional Problems. 
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