— We present an overview of some representative Agent-Based Models in Economics. We discuss why and how agent-based models represent an important step in order to explain the dynamics and the statistical properties of financial markets beyond the Classical Theory of Economics. We perform a schematic analysis of several models with respect to some specific key categories such as agents’ strategi...

This paper describes an agent-based model to investigate the origins of gender differences in social status. The agents’ basic behaviour is modelled according to Kemper’s sociological status-power theory. Differences in the socializing forces of the surrounding society are modelled using Hofstede’s dimensions of culture. Particulars of play behaviour are modelled using experimental child develo...

The aim of this paper is to provide an analysis of the use of logically complex imperatives, in particular, imperatives of the form`Do A1 or A2' and`Do A, if B'. I argue for an analysis of imperatives in terms of Classical Logic which takes into account the innuence of background information on imperatives. I show that by doing so one can avoid some counter-intuitive results which have been ass...

Knowledge-intensive activities can typically not be modeled sufficiently by classical, static process models and workflows. To enable a process-oriented knowledge management approach under these circumstances, the concept of weakly-structured workflows has been developed. This approach integrates process modeling and workflow enactment and facilitates active information support in dynamically c...

The aim of this paper is to provide an analysis of the use of logically complex imperatives, in particular, imperatives of the form`Do A1 or A2' and`Do A, if B'. I argue for an analysis of imperatives in terms of Classical Logic which takes into account the innuence of background information on imperatives. I show that by doing so one can avoid some counter-intuitive results which have been ass...

model that lets us automate the task of locating a detected misbehavior’s cause.1 Although several ways to locate causes exist, they all involve searching for the parts of the system that might have caused the misbehavior. In recent years model-based diagnosis has proven successful in numerous application domains, and the underlying methods are now powerful enough to handle many real-world prob...

Travel demand, traffic flow and land-use models are typically modeled in a decoupled way, i.e. each of the components is modeled separately assuming that parameters related to the other components are fixed. Moreover, the models are often developed by different groups for different contexts, requirements, etc. In this paper we present a prototype of a software framework which allows the user to...

In this paper we investigate various aspects of “developing agent architectures”, i.e., architectures that change over time according to their specification, in the framework architecture APOC. After a brief overview of APOC, we examine and discuss several ways of specifying developing architectures, and present examples of definitions of such architectures in APOC (e.g., Grossberg’s ART networ...

This paper presents an agent-based argumentation framework. Different from probabilistic, fuzzy and weighted approaches, this framework considers the strength of arguments and attacks from two aspects: the inner structure of arguments and the beliefs of agents. A key concept in this framework is the notion of satisfiability degree, which is used to define the intrinsic strength of attacks and t...