Agent-Based Computational Modelling Applications in Demography, Social, Economic and Environmental Sciences /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Billari, Francesco C. (Editor), Fent, Thomas (Editor), Prskawetz, Alexia (Editor), Scheffran, Jürgen (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Heidelberg : Physica-Verlag HD, 2006.
• Series: Contributions to Economics,
• Subjects: Computer simulation.; Economics.; Management science.; Population.; Environmental economics.; Social sciences.; Demography.; Economics, general.; Population Economics.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; Simulation and Modeling.; Environmental Economics.

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...

Table of 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.