Multi-Agent-Based Simulation IX: International Workshop, MABS 2008, Estoril, Portugal, May 12-13, 2008, Revised Selected Papers

ISBN-13: 9783642019906 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 228 str.

Nuno David

Opis

The meeting ofresearchersfrommulti-agentsystems engineeringandthe social/ economic/organizational sciences plays a vital role in the cross-fertilization of ideas, andisundoubtedlyanimportantsourceofinspirationforthebodyofkno- edge that is being produced in the multi-agent ?eld. The MABS series continues to pursue its goal of bringing together researchers interested in multi-agent s- tems with those focused on modelling complex social systems, in such areas as economics, management, andorganizationaland socialsciencesingeneral. This volume is the ninth of its series. It is based on papers accepted for the 9th International Workshop on Multi-agent-Based Simulation (MABS 2008), co-located with the 7th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2008), which was held in Estoril, Portugal, May 12-16,2008.All the papers presented at the workshophavebeen extended, revisedand reviewedagainin orderto be partofthis volume.The successof this ?eld is re?ected in the outstanding number of submissions that we received at thattime.Forty-foursubmissionsfrom14countrieswerereceived, fromwhichwe selected 16 for presentation (near 35% acceptance). We are very grateful to the participants who provideda lively atmosphere of debate during the presentation ofthe papersandduring thegeneraldiscussiononthe challengesthattheMABS ?eld faces. We are also very grateful to all the members of the Program Committee and the additional reviewers for their hard work. Thanks are also due to Juan A. Rodriguez-Aguilar (AAMAS 2008 Workshop Chair), to Simon Parsons and Joerg P. Mueller (AAMAS 2008 General Chairs), to Lin Padgham and David Parkes (AAMAS 2008 Program Chairs) and to Ana Paiva and Luis Antunes (AAMAS 2005 Local Organization Chairs).

Spis treści

Simulation of Economic Behaviour.- Modeling Power Distance in Trade.- Intrusion of Agent-Based Social Simulation in Economic Theory.- Modelling and Simulation of Social Behaviour.- A Model for HIV Spread in a South African Village.- Understanding Collective Cognitive Convergence.- Dynamics of Agent Organizations: Application to Modeling Irregular Warfare.- Applications.- Using Simulation to Evaluate Data-Driven Agents.- Evaluation of Automated Guided Vehicle Systems for Container Terminals Using Multi Agent Based Simulation.- MASFMMS: Multi Agent Systems Framework for Malware Modeling and Simulation.- Techniques, Infrastructure and Technologies.- Towards a Formal Semantics of Event-Based Multi-agent Simulations.- A User Interface to Support Dialogue and Negotiation in Participatory Simulations.- Towards Agents for Policy Making.- Methods and Methodologies.- A Quantitative Method for Comparing Multi-Agent-Based Simulations in Feature Space.- Deepening the Demographic Mechanisms in a Data-Driven Social Simulation of Moral Values Evolution.- Cross-Disciplinary Views on Modelling Complex Systems.- Towards a New Approach in Social Simulations: Meta-language.

Blurb

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Multi-Agent-based Simulation, MABS 2008, held in Estoril, Portugal, in May 2008.

The 16 revised full papers presented have gone through two rounds of reviewing, selection, and improvement and were selected from 44 submissions; they present state-of-the-art research results in agent-based simulation and modeling. The papers are organized in topical sections on simulation of economic behaviour; modelling and simulation of social behaviou; applications; techniques, infrastructure and technologies as well as methods and methodologies.