Multi-Agent-Based Simulation III: 4th International Workshop, Mabs 2003, Melbourne, Australia, July 2003: Revised Papers

Hales D., Edmonds B., Norling E.3540246134

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation, MABS 2003, held in Melbourne, Australia as part of AAMAS 2003.The 11 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited papers were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers are organized in topical sections on MABS techniques for MAS; economics, exchange, and influence in virtual worlds; MABS techniques for real-world modelling, and understanding and classifying MABS.

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Table of contents :
Table of Contents……Page 10
Engineering Emergent Behaviour: A Vision……Page 12
Employment Decisions Supporting Organizations of Autonomous Agents……Page 19
Towards Verification and Validation in Multiagent-Based Systems and Simulations: Analyzing Different Learning Bargaining Agents……Page 37
Weak Interaction and Strong Interaction in Agent Based Simulations……Page 54
Using Qualitative Exchange Values to Improve the Modelling of Social Interactions……Page 68
Bilateral Tradings with and without Strategic Thinking……Page 84
Monetary Policy and Banks’ Loan Supply Rules to Harness Asset Bubbles and Crashes……Page 100
Social Change: Exploring Design Influence……Page 117
Social Prejudice: Cognitive Modelling and Simulation Findings……Page 131
A Methodology for Eliciting and Modelling Stakeholders’ Representations with Agent Based Modelling……Page 142
Modelling a European Decision Making Process with Heterogeneous Public Opinion and Lobbying: The Case of the Authorization Procedure for Placing Genetically Modified………Page 160
Evaluation of Usability of Dial-a-Ride Systems by Social Simulation……Page 178
The Strategy Hypercube: Exploring Strategy Space Using Agent-Based Models……Page 193
A Classification of Paradigmatic Models for Agent-Based Social Simulation……Page 204
Author Index……Page 220