This work is devoted to investigating and developing the synergy between software engineering for multi-agent systems and agent-based social simulation. The text offers topical sections on model design issues, applications, simulating social relations and processes, and formal approaches.

Artificial Intelligence and Economic Analysis raises a number of issues about the analysis of environmental complexity in order to compare AI based approaches which seem close to existing neo-Classical approaches with some that do not. The contributors do not simply report established results but seek to identify those areas where the science of Artificial Intelligence could enrich standard economic analysis. It includes material from mainstream economists who are willing to express their own views about the limits of mainstream economic modelling and AI based economic modelling.