Agent-based computational economics: Modeling economies as complex adaptive systems

Information Sciences

Volumn 149, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 262-268

  Tesfatsion, Leigh ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based computational economics; Complex adaptive systems

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

COMPUTATIONAL ECONOMICS;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 0037306066     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0020-0255(02)00280-3     Document Type: Article

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