GROWLab (Geographic Research on War Laboratory) is a software toolbox to facilitate the modeling, simulation, analysis, and validation of complex social processes, with a special focus on geographic conflict research. GROWLab is designed as a collection of independent software components, which is intended to bring the development of agent-based simulations to the next level of complexity and r...

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...

abstract This paper gives an overview of the modelling and simulation system MIMOSE, which consists of a model description language and an experimental frame for the simulation of models. The main purpose of the MIMOSE project was the development of a modelling language which considers special demands of modelling in social science, especially the description of nonlinear, quantitative and qual...

The goal of this introduction is to point out several similarities and differences between the research fields of multi-agent systems and social simulation. We show that these fields are complementary in several aspects, thus each one can benefit from results that emerge from the other. We finish the introduction by presenting and classifying the contributions in this volume. 1 Multi-Agent Syst...

The goal of this introduction is to point out several similarities and differences between the research fields of multi-agent systems and social simulation. We show that these fields are complementary in several aspects, thus each one can benefit from results that emerge from the other. We finish the introduction by presenting and classifying the contributions in this volume. 1 Multi-Agent Syst...

MoSeS (Modelling and Simulation for e-Social Science) is a research node of the National Centre for e-Social Science (NCeSS). MoSeS uses e-Science techniques to execute an eventsdriven model which simulates discrete demographic processes; this allows us to project the UK population 25 years into the future. This paper describes the architecture, simulation methodology, and latest results obtain...

Decision making in public policy is a complex problem. Citizens share a common geographic space under a set of political governmental rules. At the same time they are subject to common cultural influences. Public interest relates with individual interests held in common – the result of joining the individual goals for the community. However, community goals may conflict with individuals’ self-i...

In this paper we discuss the purpose, design and direction of systems for the computational simulation of social phenomena. We do this by arguing and speculating about what an ideal system of this type might look like. We illustrate this with the tentative steps that have been made in this direction with respect to SDML. We hope that this will inform and stimulate the further development of soc...

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Developing the concept of Digital Business Ecosystem (DBE) and implementing it at local level through regional engagement implies integrating many areas of interest, including Business, Computing, Science and Socio-Economics (see Heistracher, Kurz, Marcon and Masuch, 2006). Consequently, this presents an important challenge in terms of communication and collaboration, in which different researc...