This paper deals with run-time detection and possible correction of erroneous and/or anomalous behavior in agents. Agent behavior is affected by its interaction with the external world, i.e., by events perceived by the agent and in which order. Nevertheless, in most practical cases, the actual arrival order of events is unforeseeable, and the set of possible events is so large that computing al...

In this work a model of pedestrian motion is presented. As application its parameters are fitted to one run in a primary school evacuation exercise. Simulations with these parameters are compared to further runs during the same exercise.

Recent advances in wireless computing and in the hardware of wireless devices has opened new directions in many domains; for example in the medical domain the medical personnel in hospitals is able to use wireless devices to gain ubiquitous access to medical related information. However the sensitivity of medical related data poses many challenges in the effort to securely manage these data. In...

2 Main Features and Overall Structure 4 2.1 Overall Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.2 Timing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.3 Decision Making . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.4 Heterogeneity and Aggregation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

Absorptive capacity, defined as the organizational capability to identify, absorb and exploit knowledge, is one of the most discussed topics in the management literature. Yet, its complex nature makes it almost impossible to empirically test it. This paper develops SimAC, an agent-based simulation tool that enables studying and comparing different absorptive capacity strategies, their related f...

And for visualization in general, we can distinguish two approaches: extrinsic and intrinsic [1]. In the former, we map agent properties to size, shape, texture, and color; in the latter, we map inter-agent relations to spatial distance. Consider, for example, the picture in Figure 1 showing a courtroom with the accused guarded by military police. The extrinsic approach allows us to identify tw...

Although freewriting strategies are commonly taught in composition courses, there have been few empirical studies on freewriting. We address this gap by examining effects of prior writing skills (as measured by a pre-write essay), freewriting training, text-box size (1, 10, 20 lines), and repetitive writing on freewriting quality. Participants watched an agent-based vicarious learning freewriti...

A real-world labor market has complex worksite interactions between a worker and an employer. This paper investigates the behavior patterns of workers and employers with a job capacity and a job concentration empirically considering a strategic coalition in an agent-based computational labor market. Here, the strategic coalition can be formed autonomously among workers and/or among employers. F...