| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 378 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Gale virtual reference library |
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Gale virtual reference library
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| Contents |
Section I. The Model-Oriented -- Fairness, Commitment, and Inequality / István Back and Andreas Flache -- Taxpayer Compliance Simulation : A Multi-Agent Based Approach / Kim M. Bloomquist -- Cooperation as the Outcome of a Social Differentiation Process in Metamimetic Games / David Chavalarias -- Probability Distribution Dynamics Explaining Agent Model Convergence to Extremism / Guillaume Deffuant and Gérard Weisbuch -- Artificial Science : A Simulation to Study the Social Processes of Science / Bruce Edmonds -- Understanding Tag Systems by Comparing Tag Models / David Hales -- Effects of Land Markets on Competition Between Innovators and Imitators in Land Use : Results from FEARLUS-ELMM / J. Gary Polhill, Dawn C. Parker, and Nicholas M. Gotts -- Introducing Social Issues into a Minority Game by Using an Agent Based Model / Marco Remondino and Alessandro Cappellini -- Probabalistic Inference for Actor Centered Models / Gero Schwenk -- Learning to be Altruistic / Gennaro Di Tosto, Mario Paolucci, and Rosaria Conte -- Modelling of Water Use Decisions in a Large, Spacially Explicit, Coupled Simulation System / Andreas Ernst [and others] -- Section II. The Empirically-Oriented -- Mechanisms of Automated Formation and Evolution of Social-Groups : A Multi-Agent System to Model the Intra-Urban Mobilities of Bogotá City / Javier Gil-Quijano, Marie Piron, and Alexis Drogoul -- The Role of Risk Aversion and Technical Trading in the Behaviour of Financial Markets / José Antonio Pascual and Javier Pajares -- Emissions Permits Auctions : An Agent Based Model Analysis / Marta Posada, Cesáreo Hernández, and Adolfo López-Paredes -- Intergovernmental Negotiations : Peer Coordination in Intergovernmental Policy Networks / Nicole K. Saam and David Sumpter -- Regional Policy Hints from Heterogeneous Agents Simulation / M. Salzano -- Analyzing the Influences of Passive Investment Strategies on Financial Markets via Agent-Based Modeling / Hiroshi Takahashi, Satoru Takahashi, and Takao Terano -- Exploring the Effects of Campaigning Strategies for the Organisation of Collective Action Using Empirical Data / Robert Tobias and Hans-Joachim Mosler -- Examining the Myth of Money with Agent-Based Modelling / Satoru Yamadera and Takao Terano -- Section III. The Participant and Experimentally-Oriented -- Friends and Buffaloes : One Game, Two Modelling Processes / Stanislas Boissau [and others] -- The Evolution of Coworker Networks : An Experimental and Computational Approach / Arianna Dal Forno and Ugo Merione -- Modelling Knowledge Production and Integration in Working Environments / Piergiuseppe Morone and Richard Taylor -- Stress and Expectation in Double-Auction Market : Simulations to Study Models Deduced from Experimental Economics / Juliette Rouchier and Stephane Robin -- Stakeholder Participation in Investigating the Impact of E-Commerce Upon the Value Chain / Richard Taylor |
| Summary |
"This book, a reference survey of social simulation work comprehensively collects the most exciting developments in the field. Drawing research contributions from a vibrant community of experts on social simulation, it provides a set of unique and innovative approaches, ranging from agent-based modeling to empirically based simulations, as well as applications in business, governmental, scientific, and other contexts"--Provided by publisher |
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"Premier reference source"--Cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 342-363) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Social sciences -- Computer simulation
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Social interaction -- Simulation methods
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Social exchange -- Simulation methods
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Methodology.
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Social sciences -- Computer simulation.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Edmonds, Bruce.
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Hernández Iglesias, Cesáreo.
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Troitzsch, Klaus G.
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| ISBN |
9781599045245 |
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1599045249 |
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9781599045221 |
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1599045222 |
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