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

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hadzikadic, Mirsad (Editor), O’Brien, Sean (Editor), Khouja, Moutaz (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, 504
• Subjects: 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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.