ISBN: 379081640X
TITLE: Agent-Based Computational Modelling
AUTHOR: Billari et al.
TOC:

Agent-Based Computational Modelling: An Introduction
Francesco C. Billari, Thomas Fent, Alexia Prskawetz, Jrgen Scheffran 1
Socio-Economics
Agent-Based Modelling - A Methodology for the Analysis of Qualitative Development Processes
Andreas Pyka, Thomas Grebel 17
On the Analysis of Asymmetric Directed Communication Structures in Electronic Election Markets
Markus Franke, Andreas Geyer-Schulz, Bettina Hoser 37
Population and Demography
The Role of Assortative Mating an Population Growth in Contemporary Developed Societies
Mike Murphy 61
An Agent-Based Simulation Model of Age-at-Marriage Norms
Belinda Aparicio Diaz, Thomas Fent 85
The Strength of Social Interactions and Obesity among Women
Mary A. Burke, Frank Heiland 117
Ecology and Environment
Agent-Based Models in Ecology: Patterns and Alternative Theories of Adaptive Behaviour
Volker Grimm, Steven F. Railsback 139
Agent-Based Modelling of Self-Organisation Processes to Support Adaptive Forest Management
Ernst Gebetsroither, Alexander Kaufmann, Ute Gigler, Andreas Resetarits 153
Vampire Bats & The Micro-Macro Link
Rosaria Conte, Mario Paolucci, Gennaro Di Tosto 173
General Aspects
How Are Physical and Social Spaces Related? - Cognitive Agents as the Necessary "Glue"
Bruce Edmonds 195
Agent Design for Agent-Based Modelling
Jim Doran 215
List of Contributors 225
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