Fifteen papers were presented at the first workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Agent-Based Simulation held as part of the Agents World conference in Paris, July 4-- 6, 1998. The workshop was designed to bring together two developing communities: the multi-agent systems researchers who were the core participants at Agents World, and social scientists interested in using MAS as a research tool. Most of the social sciences were represented, with contributions touching on sociology, management science, economics, psychology, environmental science, ecology, and linguistics. The workshop was organised in association with SimSoc, an informal group of social scientists who have arranged an irregular series of influential workshops on using simulation in the social sciences beginning in 1992. While the papers were quite heterogeneous in substantive domain and in their disciplinary origins, there were several themes which recurred during the workshop. One of these was considered in more depth in a round table discussion led by Jim Doran at the end of the workshop on 'Representing cognition for social simulation', which addressed the issue of whether and how cognition should be modelled. Quite divergent views were expressed, with some participants denying that individual cognition needed to be modelled at all, and others arguing that cognition must be at the centre of social simulation.
Author(s): Rosaria Conte, Nigel Gilbert (auth.), Jaime Simão Sichman, Rosaria Conte, Nigel Gilbert (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1534 : Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1998
Language: English
Pages: 236
Tags: Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Business Information Systems; Simulation and Modeling; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction
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MAS and Social Simulation: A Suitable Commitment....Pages 1-9
Agent-Based Modeling vs. Equation-Based Modeling: A Case Study and Users’ Guide....Pages 10-25
Simulating with Cognitive Agents: The Importance of Cognitive Emergence ....Pages 26-44
Social Simulation Models and Reality: Three Approaches....Pages 45-60
Economic Theory of Renewable Resource Management: A Multi-agent System Approach....Pages 61-78
ABCDE : Agent Based Chaotic Dynamic Emergence....Pages 79-94
Formalising the Link between Worker and Society in Honey Bee Colonies....Pages 95-110
Non-merchant Economy and Multi-agent System: An Analysis of Structuring Exchanges....Pages 111-123
Dynamics of Internal and Global Structure through Linguistic Interactions....Pages 124-139
Stereotyping, Groups and Cultural Evolution: A Case of “Second Order Emergence”?....Pages 140-155
Finding the Best Partner: The PART-NET System....Pages 156-168
Dependence Relations Between Roles in a Multi-Agent System....Pages 169-182
When Agents Emerge from Agents: Introducing Multi-scale Viewpoints in Multi-agent Simulations....Pages 183-198
ACTS in Action: Sim-ACTS – A Simulation Model Based on ACTS Theory....Pages 199-209
Towards Modeling Other Agents: A Simulation-Based Study....Pages 210-225
Multi-agent Architecture Integrating Heterogeneous Models of Dynamical Processes: The Representation of Time....Pages 226-236
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