The German support for renewable electricity generation has lead to a very dynamic growth of the installed capacity. This paper presents a new approach to the simulation of the development of renewable electricity generation which is based on the concept of agent-based simulation. In a case study a first version of the developed simulation platform is applied to analyse the impact of soft loans...

This paper 1 outlines some of the facilities which are required for an agent based simulation to eeectively support training. It describes CACTUS a computer based system to assist the training of senior police oocers in developing management skills for large public order events.

A strain-specific vaccine is unlikely to be available in the early phases of a potential H5N1 avian influenza pandemic. It could be months and at the current production rate may not provide timely protection to the population. Intervention strategies that control the spread of infection will be necessary in this situation, such as the use of the US stockpile of antiviral medication coupled with...

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In this paper we study the impact of news media and public surveys on the electoral campaigns for political competitions. We present an agent-based model that addresses the effective influence of surveys in orienting the opinions of voters before elections. The dynamics of electoral consensus is studied as a function of time by investigating different possible scenarios and the effect of period...

A class of social phenomena, exhibiting fluid boundaries and constant change, called ‘collectivities’, is modelled using an agent-based simulation, demonstrating how such models can show that a set of plausible micro-behaviours can yield the observed macrophenomenon. Some features of the model are explored and its application to a wide range of social phenomena described. Running head: A generi...

In this abstract, we present a complex multiagent environment, the RoboCupRescue simulation, and show some of the learning opportunities for the coordination of agents in this environment.

In this paper we discuss a tag-based model that facilitates knowledge sharing. Sharing the knowledge incurs a cost for the sharing agent, and thus non-sharing is the preferred option for selfish agents. Through agent-based simulations we show that knowledge sharing is possible even in the presence of non-sharing agents in the population. We also show that the performance of an agent society can...

Most of the existing crowd models were designed for specific behaviours or scenarios. Significant modifications were often required to include new behaviours and new scenarios. This paper proposed an approach to develop a generic crowd model with the ability to incorporate different behaviours under different scenarios. At the higher level of the proposed crowd model, the agent-based modelling ...