A remarkable amount of economic literature brings to our attention the fact that market is not the only result of the behaviour of agents, as we can find other forms of contact and communication. Many of them are determined by proximity conditions in some kind of space: in this paper we pay a particular attention to relational space, determined by the relationships between individuals or betwee...

This chapter reviews and summarizes eight selected paper in the area of agent-based healthcare systems. The objective of the summaries is to provide an overview of recent research work in the area and to examine the characteristics of agent-based healthcare applications. The chapter also briefly discusses reasons for adopting agent-based simulation and modeling over traditional modeling techniq...

In this paper we describe a general method for the conversion of an equation-based model to an agent-based simulation. We illustrate the process by converting a well-known recent case-study in epidemiology (zombie infection), and show how we may obtain qualitatively similar results, whilst gaining access to the many benefits of an agent-based im-

Purpose: This paper describes dynamic agent composition, used to support the development of flexible and extensible large-scale agent-based models (ABMs). This approach was motivated by a need to extend and modify, with ease, an ABM with an underlying networked structure as more information becomes available. Flexibility was also sought after so that simulations are set up with ease, without th...

We present a model for information transfer among people during evacuation and present results obtained in simulation with a large number of people. The results show how people behaviors affect the rate of evacuation.

Some agent-based models use analogs of insect pheromones for coordination. We situate these techniques in the spectrum of modeling tools. Analysis and simulation show that pheromone models are intermediate between classical agent-based models and mean-field models, inspired by statistical physics. This position is not fixed, but can be adjusted by pheromone parameters (notably, the propagation ...

This paper describes an agent-based simulation model of rural land exchange in the Netherlands. The model development process is part of an ongoing research program aiming at understanding the effects of climate change and socioeconomic drivers on agriculture land use and nature conservation. The first model version reported in this paper, is being developed for the Baakse Beek region in the Ne...

Opinion formation describes the dynamics of opinions in a group of interaction agents and is a powerful tool for predicting the evolution and di usion of the opinions. The existing opinion formation studies assume that the agents express their opinions by using the exact number, i.e., the exact opinions. However, when people express their opinions, sentiments, and support emotions regarding di ...

In the paradigm of the search theory, we established the search model applicable to the characteristics of China's resale housing market, by modeling the search behavior for buyer and seller, respectively. Setting the parameters based on the Beijing housing market survey in August 2012, we implemented agentbased simulation to study the dynamics of the search behavior measured by search intensit...