Agent-Based Computational Modelling: Applications in Demography, Social, Economic and Environmental SciencesFrancesco C. Billari Taylor & Francis, 13. mars 2006 - 226 sider This book is the outcome of a project that started with the organisation of theTopicalWorkshopon"Agent-BasedComputationalModelling. AnInst- ment for Analysing Complex Adaptive Systems in Demography, Economics and Environment" at the Vienna Institute of Demography, December 4-6, 2003. The workshop brought together scholars from several disciplines, all- ing both for serious scienti?c debate and for informal conversation over a cup co?ee or during a visit to the wonderfulmuseums of Vienna. One of the nicest features of Agent-Based Modelling is indeed the opportunity that scholars ?nd a common language and discuss from their disciplinary perspective, in turn learning from other perspectives. Given the success of the meeting, we found it important to pursue the purpose of collecting these interdisciplinary contributions in a volume. In order to ensure the highest scienti?c standards for the book, we decided that all the contributions (with the sole exception of the introductory chapter) should have been accepted conditional on peer reviews. Generoushelpwasprovidedbyreviewers, someofwhomwereneither directly involved in the workshop nor in the book. All this would not have been possible without the funding provided by the Complex Systems N- work of Excellence (Exystence) funded by the European Union, the Vienna Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Universit` a Bocconi, and ARC Systems Research GmbH, and the help of the wonderful sta? ofthe Vienna Institute of Demography(in particular, Ani Minassianand Belinda Aparicio Diaz). Agent-Based Modelling is important, interesting and also fun-we hope this book contributes to showing that. Milano Francesco C. |
Innhold
An Introduction | 1 |
Ecology and Environment | 12 |
AgentBased Modelling A Methodology for the Analysis | 17 |
On the Analysis of Asymmetric Directed Communication | 37 |
Population and Demography | 61 |
An AgentBased Simulation Model of AgeatMarriage Norms | 85 |
Patterns and Alternative | 139 |
AgentBased Modelling of SelfOrganisation Processes | 153 |
Barbara Creed | 64 |
Ken Gelder | 81 |
Belinda Aparicio Diaz Thomas Fent 85 | 85 |
Mark Seltzer | 97 |
Ken Gelder | 111 |
Ken Gelder | 145 |
Stephen D Arata | 161 |
Ken Gelder | 187 |
Vampire Bats The MicroMacro Link | 173 |
General Aspects | 195 |
Agent Design for AgentBased Modelling | 215 |
List of illustrations | xi |
Elizabeth Young | xii |
PART | 3 |
PART | 4 |
THE FANTASTIC | 6 |
PART SEVEN | 7 |
Tzvetan Todorov | 14 |
2 | 20 |
3 | 29 |
INTRODUCTION TO PART TWO 49 | 49 |
Patricia White | 210 |
Ken Gelder | 225 |
Fatimah Tobing Rony | 242 |
Gregory A Waller | 256 |
Ken Gelder | 273 |
Carol J Clover | 294 |
INTRODUCTION TO PART TEN | 311 |
Leon Hunt | 324 |
Ken Gelder | 349 |
Audrey | 364 |
Bibliography | 379 |
401 | |
Andre utgaver - Vis alle
Vanlige uttrykk og setninger
actors age norms age-at-marriage norms agent-based modelling agents Alfonso altruists analysis anxiety apparitions assortative mating average behaviour body Bride of Frankenstein cheaters complex correlation culture demographic desire distribution double auction Dracula dream dynamics economic effect eigensystem evolutionary evolutionary economics example fantastic fear female fertility figure film's forest Frankenstein Frankenstein's monster freak Freud ghosts Gothic groups horror film horror texts human ibid imagination individual interaction internal Kristeva Lacan lower bound magic lantern male marriage Mary Shelley maternal metaphor modern monster monstrous mother naïve standardized fecundability nature nineteenth century novel obesity object observed parameters partner patterns phantasmagoria phantoms population produced Psycho psychoanalysis reader relation roosts self-organisation serial killer sexual shows signify simulation social society specific spectral structure supernatural symbolic theory timber tion trader transmission mechanisms trees uncanny upper bound vampire vampire fiction weight norm woman women