Simulating Interacting Agents and Social Phenomena

1. Modeling Approaches and Programming Environments

   1. Autonomous Tags: Language as Generative of Culture

      • Deborah Vakas Duong

      Pages 227-252

   2. Virtual City Model for Simulating Social Phenomena

      • Manabu Ichikawa, Yuhsuke Koyama, Hiroshi Deguchi

      Pages 253-264

   3. Modeling Endogenous Coordination Using a Dynamic Language*

      • Jonathan Ozik, Michael North

      Pages 265-276

2. Back Matter

   Pages 277-280

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Agent-based modeling and social simulation have emerged as an interdisciplinary area of social science that includes computational economics, organizational science, social dynamics, and complex systems. This area contributes to enriching our understanding of the fundamental processes of social phenomena caused by complex interactions among agents. Bringing together diverse approaches to social simulation and research agendas, this book presents a unique collection of contributions from the Second World Congress on Social Simulation, held in 2008 at George Mason University in Washington DC, USA. This book in particular includes articles on norms, diffusion, social networks, economy, markets and organizations, computational modeling, and programming environments, providing new hypotheses and theories, new simulation experiments compared with various data sets, and new methods for model design and development. These works emerged from a global and interdisciplinary scientific community of the three regional scientific associations for social simulation: the North American Association for Computational Social and Organizational  Science (NAACSOS; now the Computational Social Science Society, CSSS), the European Social Simulation Association (ESSA), and the Pacific Asian Association for Agent-bBased  Approach in Social Systems Sciences (PAAA).

• Agent Based Social Simulation
• agent-based approach
• agent-based model
• complex system
• complex systems
• computational economic & organization theory
• open agent-based modeling consortium
• complexity

• Department of Informatics and Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Japan

  Keiki Takadama

• Center for Social Complexity, George Mason University, Fairfax, USA

  Claudio Cioffi-Revilla

• Head of LISC (Laboratoire d’Ingénierie des Systèmes Complexes), Aubière Cedex 1, France

  Guillaume Deffuant

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