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

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• 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
• Θέματα: Engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Computational intelligence.; Computational Intelligence.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.