Agent-based modelling of complex ecological-economic systems

Guest Editorial: Agent-based Modelling of Evolutionary Economic Systems

A modern market-based economy is an example of a complex adaptive system, consisting of a decentralized collection of autonomous agents interacting in various market contexts. These massively parallel local interactions give rise to global regularities such as trade networks, socially accepted monies, market protocols, business cycles and the common adoption of technological innovations. The re...

A General Framework for Agent-based Modelling of Complex Systems

Agent-based approaches to modelling complex systems and phenomena are becoming popular and are proving successful in a number of areas. However, the underlying basis of these techniques is sometime rather 'ad-hoc' and the models are often only applied to specific systems. This paper describes a general approach that is based on the use of fully general computational models, using a formal model...

Agent-Based Computational Economics: Modelling Economies as Complex Adaptive Systems

Agent-based computational economics (ACE) is the computational study of economies modelled as evolving systems of autonomous interacting agents. Thus, ACE is a specialization to economics of the basic complex adaptive systems paradigm. This paper outlines the main objectives and defining characteristics of the ACE methodology, and discusses several active research areas.

Modelling complex biological systems using an agent-based approach.

Many of the complex systems found in biology are comprised of numerous components, where interactions between individual agents result in the emergence of structures and function, typically in a highly dynamic manner. Often these entities have limited lifetimes but their interactions both with each other and their environment can have profound biological consequences. We will demonstrate how mo...

Agent-oriented Modelling for Complex Systems