Agent-based modeling/simulation is an emerging field that uses bottom-up and experimental analysis in the social sciences. Selected research from that presented at the Third International Workshop on Agent-Based Approaches in Economic and Social Complex Systems 2004, held in May 2004 in Kyoto, Japan, is included in this book. The aim of the workshop was to employ the bottom-up approach to social and economic problems by modeling, simulation, and analysis using a software agent. This research area is an emerging interdisciplinary field among the social sciences and computer science, attracting broad attention because it introduces a simulation-based experimental approach to problems that are becoming increasingly complex in an era of globalization and innovation in information technology. The state-of-the-art research and findings presented in this book will be indispensable tools for anyone involved in this rapidly growing discipline.

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SOARS: Spot Oriented Agent Role Simulator Design and Implementation.- Interactive inversion of agent-based models.- Modeling the Exchange of AIDS Prevention and Treatment Strategies in Hong Kong.- Effect of Mutual Choice Metanorm in Group Dynamics for Solving Social Dilemmas.- Evolution of Cooperative Behavior in C2C market: Effect of Reputation Management System.- Constructing shared interpretations in a team of intelligent agents: the effects of communication intensity and structure.- Gaming simulation of the international CO2 emission trading under the Kyoto Protocol.- A Report of U-Mart Experiments as an Educational Courseware.- Evaluation Criteria for Learning Mechanisms applied to Agents in a Cross-Cultural Simulation.- Agent-based simulation of adaptive organizational structures to environmental change.- A Study on alliance analysis in civil aviation industry based on fuzzy landscape theory.- The Defense of Disruptive Technologies.- Risk Preference and Survival Dynamics.- Analysis Passive Investment Strategies and Asset Price Fluctuation in Financial Market Through Agent.- Report of UMIE 2004 and Summary of U-Mart experiments based on the classification of submitted machine agents.- Grounded Theory and Multi-Agent Simulation for a Small Firm.- The Use of Hybrid Agent Based Systems to Model Petrol Markets.- A Study on Pareto Optimality of Walrasian Virtual Market.- Coordination in rapidly evolving disaster response systems: the role of information.- A simulation analysis for pedestrian flow management.- Effects of structural and behavioral strategies toward the environmentally conscious society: agent-based approach.