An analysis and design framework for agent-based social simulation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7068 LNAI, Issue , 2012, Pages 96-112

  Ghorbani, Amineh ^a   Dignum, Virginia ^a   Dijkema, Gerard ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agent based modeling; IAD; methodology; social simulation

Indexed keywords

AGENT BASED; AGENT-BASED METHODOLOGIES; AGENT-BASED MODELING; AGENT-BASED SOFTWARES; AGENT-BASED SYSTEMS; ANALYSIS AND DESIGN; ARTIFICIAL SOCIETIES; COMPLEX SOCIAL SYSTEMS; DETAILED DESIGN; IAD; INDIVIDUAL AGENT; INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; OPERATIONAL LEVEL; SOCIAL MODELS; SOCIAL SIMULATIONS; SYSTEM EVOLUTION; TWO LAYERS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DESIGN; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 84855929704     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-27216-5_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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