Multi-Agent-Based Simulation VIII: International Workshop, MABS 2007, Honolulu, HI, USA, May 15, 2007, Revised and Invited Papers

by Luis Antunes (Editor), Mario Paolucci (Editor), Emma Norling (Editor)

Overview

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation, MABS 2007, held in Honolulu, HI, USA in May 2007 as an associated event of AAMAS 2007, the main international conference on autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. The 10 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 20 submissions.The papers are organized in topical sections on architectures; teams, learning, education; economy, trust and reputation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540709152
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	08/27/2008
Series:	Lecture Notes in Computer Science , #5003
Edition description:	2008
Pages:	141
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.40(d)

Table of Contents

MABS Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary!.- MABS Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary!.- Architectures.- System Issues in Multi-agent Simulation of Large Crowds.- Middleware Support for Performance Improvement of MABS Applications in the Grid Environment.- E Pluribus Unum: Polyagent and Delegate MAS Architectures.- A Multi-agent Model for the Micro-to-Macro Linking Derived from a Computational View of the Social Systems Theory by Luhmann.- Teams, Learning, Education.- Agent-Based Simulation of Group Learning.- An Agent-Based Model That Relates Investment in Education to Economic Prosperity.- Economy, Trust and Reputation.- Trust-Based Inter-temporal Decision Making: Emergence of Altruism in a Simulated Society.- Multi-agent Model of Technological Shifts.- Beyond Accuracy. Reputation for Partner Selection with Lies and Retaliation.