Multi-Agent and Multi-Agent-Based Simulation: Joint Workshop MABS 2004

by Paul Davidsson (Editor), Brian Logan (Editor), Keiki Takadama (Editor)

Overview

This volume presents revised and extended versions of selected papers presented at the Joint Workshop on Multi-Agent and Multi-Agent-Based Simulation, a workshop federated with the 3rd International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2004), which was held in New York City, USA, July 19–23, 2004. The workshop was in part a continuation of the International Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation (MABS) series. - vised versions of papers presented at the four previous MABS workshops have been published as volumes 1534, 1979, 2581, and 2927 in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. The aim of the workshop was to provide a forum for work in both appli- tions of multi-agent-based simulation and the technical challenges of simulating large multi-agent systems (MAS). There has been considerable recent progress in modelling and analyzing multi-agent systems, and in techniques that apply MAS models to complex real-world systems such as social systems and organi- tions. Simulation is an increasingly important strand that weaves together this work. In high-risk, high-cost situations, simulations provide critical cost/benefit leverage, and make possible explorations that cannot be carried out in situ: – Multi-agent approaches to simulating complex systems are keytools in int- disciplinary studies of social systems. Agent-based social simulation (ABSS) research simulates and synthesizes social behavior in order to understand real social systems with properties of self-organization, scalability, robustness, and openness. – In the MAS community, simulation has been applied to a wide range of MAS research and design problems, from models of complex individual agents - ploying sophisticated internal mechanisms to models of large-scale societies of relativelysimple agents which focus more on the interactions between agents.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540252627
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	04/19/2005
Series:	Lecture Notes in Computer Science , #3415
Edition description:	2005
Pages:	265
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.36(d)

Table of Contents

Simulation of Multi-agent Systems.- Smooth Scaling Ahead: Progressive MAS Simulation from Single PCs to Grids.- Agent Communication in Distributed Simulations.- Distributed Simulation of MAS.- Extending Time Management Support for Multi-agent Systems.- Designing and Implementing MABS in AKIRA.- Technique and Technology.- Work-Environment Analysis: Environment Centric Multi-agent Simulation for Design of Socio-technical Systems.- Layering Social Interaction Scenarios on Environmental Simulation.- Change Your Tags Fast! – A Necessary Condition for Cooperation?.- Users Matter: A Multi-agent Systems Model of High Performance Computing Cluster Users.- Formal Analysis of Meeting Prools.- Methodology and Modelling.- From KISS to KIDS – An ‘Anti-simplistic’ Modelling Approach.- Analysis of Learning Types in an Artificial Market.- Toward Guidelines for Modeling Learning Agents in Multiagent-Based Simulation: Implications from Q-Learning and Sarsa Agents.- Social Dynamics.- Agent-Based Modelling of Forces in Crowds.- An Investigation into the Use of Group Dynamics for Solving Social Dilemmas.- Applications.- ASAP: Agent-Based Simulator for Amusement Park.- Patchiness and Prosociality: An Agent-Based Model of Plio/Pleisene Hominid Food Sharing.- Plant Disease Incursion Management.- A Hybrid Micro-Simulator for Determining the Effects of Governmental Control Policies on Transport Chains.- Simulation and Analysis of Shared Extended Mind.