Introduction: Agent-based computational demography

Contributions to Economics

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1-17

  Billari, Francesco C ^a   Ongaro, Fausta ^b   Prskawetz, Alexia ^c  

^a BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHIC METHOD; METHODOLOGY; MODELING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 4744351427     PISSN: 14311933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7908-2715-6_1     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Axelrod, R. (1997): The Complexity of Cooperation. Agent-Based Models of Competition and Collaboration. Princeton University Press, Princeton
2. Axtell, R. (2000): Why Agents? On the Varied Motivations for Agent Computing in the Social Sciences. CSED Working Paper No. 17. Available online at: http://www.brook.edu/dybdocroot/es/dynamics/papers/agents/agents.htm.
3. Axtell, R.L., Epstein, J.M., Dean, J.S., Gumeran, G.J., Swedlund, A.C., Harburger, J., Chakravarty, S., Hammond, R., Parker, J., Parker, M. (2002): Population growth and collapse in a multiagent model of the Kayenta Anasazi in Long House Valley. PNAS 99, suppl.3, 7275-7279
4. Benenson, I., Omer, I., Hatna, E. (2003): Agent-Based Modeling of Householders' Migration Behavior and its Consequences. This book, 97-115
5. Billari, F.C. (2000): Searching for Mates Using 'Fast and Frugal' Heuristics: a Demographic Perspective. In: Ballot G., Weisbuch G. (Eds. : Applications of Simulation to Social Sciences, 53-65, Hermes Science Publications, Oxford
6. Billari, F.C., Prskawetz, A., Fürnkranz J. (2003): On the Cultural Evolution of Age-at-Marriage Norms. This book, 139-157
7. Burch, T.K. (1996): Icons, Straw Men and Precision: Reflections on Demographic Theories of Fertility Decline. The Sociological Quarterly 37(1), 59-81
8. Burch, T.K. (2003): Data, Models, Theory and Reality. The Structure of Demographic Knowledge. This book, 19-40
9. Chattoe, E. (2003): The Role of Agent-Based Modelling in Demographic Explanation. This book, 41-54
10. Conte, R. (2000): The Necessity of Intelligent Agents for Social Simulation. In: Ballot G., Weisbuch G. (Eds.): Applications of Simulation to Social Sciences, 19-38, Hermes Science Publications, Oxford
11. Conte R., Castelfranchi C. (1995): Understanding the functions of norms in social groups through simulation. In: Gilbert N., Conte R. (Eds.): Artificial societies. The computer simulation of social life, 252-267, UCL Press, London
12. Courgeau, D. (1995): Migration theories and behavioral models. International Journal of Population Geography 1 (1), 19-27
13. Dean, J.S., Gumerman, G.J., Epstein, J.M., Axtell, R.L., Swedlund, A.C., Parker, M.T., McCarroll, S. (2000): Understanding Anasazi Culture Change Through Agent-Based Modeling. In: Kohler, T.A., Gumerman, G.J. (Eds.): Dynamics in Human and Primate Societies. Agent-Based Modeling of Social and Spatial Processes, 179-206, Santa Fe Institute, New York, Oxford University Press
14. Epstein, J.M., Axtell, R. (1996): Growing Artificial Societies. Social Science from the Bottom Up, Brookings Institutions Press, Washington, DC.
15. Ewert, U.C., Roehl, M., Uhrmacher, A. (2003): Consequences of Mortality Crises in Pre-Modern European Towns: A Multiagent-Based Simulation Approach. This book, 175-196
16. Gigerenzer, G., Todd, P.M., the ABC Research Group (1999): Simple heuristics that make us smart. Oxford University Press, New York
17. Gilbert, N. Troitzsch, K.G. (1999): Simulation for the Social Scientist. Open University Press, Buckingham-Philadelphia
18. Halpin, B. (1999): Simulation in Society. American Behavioral Scientist 42(10), 1488-1508
19. Hammel, E.A., McDaniel, C.K., Wachter, K.W. (1979): Demographic Consequences of Incest Tabus: A Microsimulation Analysis. Science 205, 972-977
20. Hammel, E.A., Wachter, K.W. (1996): Evaluating the Slavonian Census of 1698. Part II: A microsimulation test and extension of the evidence. European Journal of Population 12 (4), 295-326
21. Hedström, P., Swedberg, R. (Eds.) (1998): Social Mechanisms. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
22. Heiland, F. (2003): The Collapse of the Berlin Wall - Simulating State-Level East to West German Migration Patterns. This book, 73-96
23. Hobcraft, J. (2000): Moving Beyond Elaborate Description: Towards Understanding Choices About Parenthood. Paper presented at the FFS Flagship Conference, Brussels, May 29-31
24. Jager, W., Janssen, M.A. (2003): Diffusion Processes in Demographic Transitions: A Prospect on Using Multi Agent Simulation to Explore the Role of Cognitive Strategies and Social Interactions. This book, 55-72
25. Johnson, P.E. (1999): Simulation Modeling in Political Science. American Behavioral Scientist 42(10), 1509-1530
26. Kohler, T.A., Gumerman, G.J. (Eds.) (2000): Dynamics in Human and Primate Societies. Agent-Based Modeling of Social and Spatial Processes. Santa Fe Institute, New York, Oxford University Press
27. König, A., Möhring, M., Troitzsch, K.G. (2003): Agents, Hierarchies and Sustainability. This book, 197-210
28. Land, K.C. (1986): Methods for national population forecasts: a review. Journal of the American Statistical Association 81, 888-901
29. Lesthaeghe, R. (2000): Fertility and partnership change: FFS contributions and requirements for the future. Paper presented at the FFS Flagship Conference, Brussels, May 29-31
30. Macy, M.W., Willer, R. (2002): From Factors to Actors: Computational Sociology and Agent-Based Modeling. Annual Review of Sociology 28, 143-166
31. Murphy, M. (2003): Bringing behavior back into micro-simulation: Feedback mechanisms in demographic models. This book, 159-174
32. Nakazawa, M., Ohtsuka, R. (1997): Analysis of completed parity using microsimulation modeling. Mathematical Population Studies 6(3), 173-186
33. Palloni, A. (2000): Demographic analysis: new theories, new methods and new data. In: De Sandre P., Ongaro F. (Eds.): Demografia: presente e futuro, 61-88, Cleup, Padova
34. Riley, J., Sheps, M. (1966): An analytic simulation model of human reproduction with demographic and biological components. Population Studies 19, 297-310
35. Ruggles, S. (1993): Confessions of a microsimulator. Historical methods 26(4), 161-169
36. Saam, N.J. (1999): Simulating the micro-macro link: new approaches to an old problem and an application to military coups. Sociological Methodology 29, 43-79
37. Schelling, T.C. (1971): Dynamic models of segregation. Journal of Mathematical Sociology 1, 143-186
38. Tesfatsion, L. (Eds.) (2001): Special Issue of Agent-based Computational Economics. Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control 25, 281-654
39. Todd, P.M. (1997): Searching for the next best mate. In: Conte R., Hegselmann R., Terna P. (Eds.): Simulating Social Phenomena, 419-436, Springer-Verlag, Berlin
40. Todd, P.M., Billari, F.C. (2002): Population-Wide Marriage Patterns Produced by Individual Mate-Search Heuristics. This book, 117-137
41. Tomassini, C., Wolf, D. (2000): Shrinking Kin Networks in Italy Due to Sustained Low Fertility. European Journal of Population 16, 353-372
42. Van Imhoff, E., Post, W.J. (1998): Microsimulation methods for population projection. Population: An English Selection 10(1) [Special issue on "New Methodological Approaches in the Social Sciences"], 97-138
43. Vaupel, J.W., Carey, J.R., Christensen, K., Johnson, T.E., Yashin, A.I., Holm, N.V., Iachine, I.A., Khazaeli, A.A., Liedo, P., Longo, V.D., Zeng, Y., Manton, K.G., Curtsinger, J.W. (1998): Biodemographic Trajectories of Longevity. Science 280(5365), 855-860
44. Wachter, K.W. (1987): Microsimulation of household cycles. In: Bongaarts, J., Burch, T.K., Wachter, K.W. (Eds.): Family demography. Methods and their application, Clarendon Press, Oxford
45. Wilson, C. (1999): Evolutionary Theory and Historical Fertility Change. Population and Development Review 25, 531-541
46. Wolf, D. (2001): The Role of Microsimulation in Longitudinal Data Analysis. Canadian Studies in Population 28, 165-179