Social simulation technologies, advances and new discoveries /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Edmonds, Bruce., Hernandez, Cesareo., Troitzsch, Klaus G.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2008.
• Subjects: Social interaction > Simulation methods.; Social sciences > Computer simulation.; Social exchange > Simulation methods.; Actor centered models; Agent-based modeling; Agent model convergence; Artificial science; Behavior of financial markets; Double-auction market; Emissions permits auctions; Evolution of social-groups; Fairness, commitment and inequality; Heterogeneous agents simulation; Impact of e-commerce upon the value chain; Intergovernmental negotiations; Knowledge production and integration; Mechanisms of automated formation; Metamimetic games; Multi-agent based approach; Passive investment strategies; Probabilistic inference; Probability distribution dynamics; Risk aversion; Social differentiation process; Tag models; Tag systems; Taxpayer compliance simulation; Technical trading; The evolution of coworker networks
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The simulation of social behavior in a variety of domains is an increasingly important technological tool. A reference survey of social simulation work, This book comprehensively collects the most exciting developments in the field. Drawing research contributions from a vibrant community of experts...

Table of Contents:

• 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, Carsten Schulz, Nina Schwarz, and Stephan Janisch
• 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
• Friends and Buffaloes: One Game, Two Modelling Processes / Stanislas Boissau ... [et al.]
• 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.