We present an approach for the support of agent-based social simulation (ABSS) models within a generic framework for computer-based environmental modelling. The framework allows for the coupling of simulation models from various sciences to perform integrative simulations. It is applicable to any kind of model which simulates spatially distributed environmental processes with an arbitrary, but ...

This article describes three agent-based social simulation models in the area of land-use change using a model documentation protocol, ODD, from the ecological literature. Our goal is to evaluate how well fitted it is to social simulations and how successful it might be in increasing communication between individualand agent-based modellers. Such shared protocols can facilitate model review, co...

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This paper interprets a particular agent-based social simulation (ABSS) in terms of Conte's third way of understanding agent-based simulation. It is proposed that the normalized compression distance (derived from estimates of Kolmogorov complexity) between the initial and final macrolevel states of the ABSS provides a quantitative measure of the degree to which the results obtained via the ABSS...

Most of the work in agent-based social simulation has assumed highly simplified agent models, with little attention being paid to the details of individual cognition. Here, in an effort to counteract that trend, we substitute a realistic cognitive agent model (CLARION) for the simpler models previously used in an organizational design task. On that basis, an exploration is made of the interacti...

Nuno David, Maria Marietto, Jaime Simão Sichman and Helder Coelho 1 Department of Information Science and Technology, ISCTE/DCTI, Lisbon, Portugal [email protected] 2 Brazilian Institute of Advanced Technology, Brazil [email protected] 3 Intelligent Techniques Laboratory, University of São Paulo, Brazil [email protected] 4 Department of Informatics, University of Lisbon, Por...

The exploration of agent-based social simulation models with a systematic analysis over its parameter space leads to a common problem. It takes too much time to get enough results for a significant analysis of the data generated by the simulation runs over those models. In this paper we show how one can minimise this problem by using grid computing. That is, constructing a social simulation mod...

It is necessary to mature the method to improve a gap between Agent-based Social Simulation (ABSS) and a real world where we may utilize ABSS effectively. The important point to apply ABSS to an actual scene in a real society is, (1) to set a concrete specified purpose, (2) not to depend on the abstract traditional model in modeling, (3) to clarify the effective range of the constructed model, ...

We show that certain desired behavioural properties of agent based models can be deterministically induced by an appropriate mathematical structure We also point out problems related to the handling of parameters and of the modelling of time in agent based models Our purpose is to illustrate some problems of agent based social simulations in markets as a rst step towards the more ambitious goal...

This paper draws on the metaphor of a spectrum of models ranging from the most theorydriven to the most evidence-driven. The issue of concern is the practice and criteria that will be appropriate to validation of different models. In order to address this concern, two modelling approaches are investigated in some detailed — one from each end of our metaphorical spectrum. Windrum et al. (2007) (...