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...

There are many situations where people join groups, the number of groups is fixed, and where a person can only join a new group if the new group approves the person’s joining. We examine such situations where agents are concerned with either local status (each agent wants to be the highest status agent in his group) or global status (each agent wants to join the highest status group that she ca...

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...

This paper examines the tradeoffs between agents that can predict (and, therefore, take into account) other agent’s actions and agents that act on their own without taking other agents’ actions into account. A simple prediction mechanism allows agents to make reasonably accurate guesses about other agents’ future actions, thereby making better decisions about their own actions. Our experimental...

This paper presents an approach for relating informed task models and system models in the domain of safety critical interactive systems. The models, which are usually developed from an error-free perspective, have been informed to account for erroneous user behavior. We believe this perspective extends the general boundaries of model based development (MBD), by taking into account additional i...

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A percentile-based bibliometric indicator is an indicator that values publications based on their position within the citation distribution of their field. The most straightforward percentile-based indicator is the proportion of frequently cited publications, for instance the proportion of publications that belong to the top 10% most frequently cited of their field. Recently, more complex perce...