Multi-Agent-Based Simulation VII: International Workshop, MABS 2006, Hakodate, Japan, May 8, 2006, Revised and Invited Papers

by Luis Antunes (Editor), Keiki Takadama (Editor)

Overview

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation, MABS 2006. This was held in Hakodate, Japan, May 8, 2006 as an associated event of AAMAS 2006, the main international conference on autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. The 12 revised full papers presented together with three short papers and two invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions during two rounds of reviewing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540765363
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	12/14/2007
Series:	Lecture Notes in Computer Science , #4442
Edition description:	2007
Pages:	194
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

Invited Papers.- Exploring the Vast Parameter Space of Multi-Agent Based Simulation.- Applications of Agent Based Simulation.- Empirical Cross Studies.- Analyzing Dynamics of Peer-to-Peer Communication -From Questionnaire Surveys to Agent-Based Simulation.- Modeling Human Education Data: From Equation-Based Modeling to Agent-Based Modeling.- Experimental Ecology.- Contrasting a System Dynamics Model and an Agent-Based Model of Food Web Evolution.- Roost Size for Multilevel Selection of Altruism Among Vampire Bats.- Experimental Economics.- Tactical Exploration of Tax Compliance Decisions in Multi-agent Based Simulation.- Learning to Use a Perishable Good as Money.- Foundations and Methodologies.- A Holonic Approach to Model and Deploy Large Scale Simulations.- Concurrent Modeling of Alternative Worlds with Polyagents.- Learning.- Integrating Learning and Inference in Multi-agent Systems Using Cognitive Context.- Can Agents Acquire Human-Like Behaviors in a Sequential Bargaining Game? – Comparison of Roth’s and Q-Learning Agents –.- Social Dependence.- Quantifying Degrees of Dependence in Social Dependence Relations.