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A financial market example illustrates how Interactive Evolutionary Computation (IEC) can be used for agent-based model inversion. The example shows that IEC can be used to discover a model that reproduces synthetic data generated with a very simple model.
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Ashburn, T., Bonabeau, E., Ecemis, I. (2005). Interactive inversion of agent-based models. In: Terano, T., Kita, H., Kaneda, T., Arai, K., Deguchi, H. (eds) Agent-Based Simulation: From Modeling Methodologies to Real-World Applications. Agent-Based Social Systems, vol 1. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/4-431-26925-8_2
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