s far as I know, no one currently uses agentbased models for investment. In the context of this presentation, an agent-based model involves a model for price formation and a model for agent behavior, including the models’ information inputs and how the inputs behave, which could involve learning. From an investor’s point of view, agentbased models represent a new direction that may or may not r...

JAN-WILLEM VAN LEUSSEN & MAAIKE VONDENHOFF This report describes an attempt to remodel Boersma and Hamann (2007)'s Optimality Theoretic account of evolution of phonemic contrasts in an agent-based environment, inspired by agent simulations such as de Boer (2000). While we succeeded in transplanting B&H's model to the more complex world populated by agents, we were not able to replicate all thei...

Prior research on negotiation support systems (NSS) has paid limited attention to the information content in the observed bid sequences of negotiators as well as on the cognitive limitations of individual negotiators and their impacts on negotiation performance. In this paper, we assess the performance of human subjects in the context of agent-based NSS, and the accuracy of an exponential funct...

We present two ways in which dynamic self-assembly can be used to perform computation, via stochastic protein networks and self-assembling software. We describe our protein-emulating agent-based simulation infrastructure, which is used for both types of computations, and the few agent properties sufficient for dynamic self-assembly. Examples of protein-networkbased computation and self-assembli...

Group behavior has received much attention as a test case of self-organization. There has been much written in recent years to investigate interactions within groups of agents. These agents can be animals moving in an interactive way, such as birds, but can also refer to situations such as people driving in traffic. The models that describe these interactions are able to reproduce different str...

Social Norms proliferate in societies as a mechanism for self-organization. This kind of norms are not enforced by a central authority and the individuals of the society are those responsible for their generation and maintenance. The maintenance process is what is known as norm support and is supported by several mechanisms like for example laws, social proof, dominance, etc. We believe that ag...

A honeybee colony has to choose among several nectar sources in the environment, each fluctuating in quality over time. Successful forager bees return to the hive and perform dances to describe the food sources they have found. Each dancer tries to recruit other forager bees to fly to the source it has found. Some individual dancers clearly dance longer for higher quality sources, other dancers...

Many emerging pathogens infect multiple host species [1], and multi-host pathogens may have very different dynamics in different host species [2]. This research addresses how pathogen replication rates and Immune System (IS) response times are constrained by host body size. An Ordinary Differential Equation (ODE) model is used to show that pathogen replication rates decline with host body size ...

How do people attribute responsibility in situations where the contributions of multiple agents combine to produce a joint outcome? The prevalence of over-determination in such cases makes this a difficult problem for counterfactual theories of causal responsibility. In this article, we explore a general framework for assigning responsibility in multiple agent contexts. We draw on the structura...

The general objective of the multiple-use Management Strategy Evaluation (MSE) framework is to develop and demonstrate practical science-based methods that support, under existing statutory arrangements, integrated regional planning and management of coastal and marine ecosystems. Multiple-use MSE has, so far, focused on four sectors: oil and gas, conservation, fisheries and coastal development...