Agent-based modeling and social simulation have emerged as both developments of and challenges to the social sciences. The developments include agent-based computational economics and investigations of theoretical sociological concepts using formal simulation techniques. Among the challenges are the development of qualitative modeling techniques, implementation of agent-based models to investigate phenomena for which conventional economic, social, and organizational models have no face validity, and the application of physical modeling techniques to social processes. Bringing together diverse approaches to social simulation and research agendas, this book presents a unique collection of contributions from the First World Congress on Social Simulation, held in 2006 in Kyoto, Japan. The work emerged from the collaboration of the Pacific Asian Association for Agent-Based Approach in Social Systems Sciences, the North American Association for Computational Social and Organizational Science, and the European Social Simulation Association.

Offers topics related to social simulation and agent-based approaches in economic and social complex systems to promote worldwide activities of the multi-disciplinary community on multiagent, computational economics, organizational science, social dynamics, and complex systems Contributors are from not only Japan but also from US and Europe

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KAIZEN for Agent-Based Modeling.- Collective Decisions in Multi-Agent Systems.- Logic for Situated Action.- Complexity and the Place of Formalism in Social Science.- Toward a Productive Interaction Between Simulations and Theory in Economic Science.- Emergence of Peace due to Neutral Attitude Toward Others.- A Roadmap to Realistic Computational Models of Civil Wars.- Why Do We Like To Stay with Our Friends? Modelling the Evolutionary Dynamics of Interpersonal Commitment.- The Fate of Bilingualism in a Model of Language Competition.- A Comparative Study of Order-Driven and Quote-Driven Markets Using Artificial Markets.- A Hybrid Approach to Modelling Advertising Effects - An Application to Optimal Lying in the Software Business.- Emergence of the Leader-Follower Structure Among Consumers: What Type of Consumers Would Be the Most Influential in the Marketplace?.- A Declarative Model Assembly Infrastructure for Verification and Validation.- What if Hayek Goes Shopping in the Bazaar?.- Making More Sense of Agent-Based Simulation for Agricultural Policy Analysis.- Multi-Agent Simulations to Explore Rules for Rural Credit Management in a Highland Farming Community of Northern Thailand.- Interactive Agent-Based Simulation Environment of SABER.- Agent-Based Modeling Simulation of Social Adaptation and Long-Term Change in Inner Asia.- Effective Guidelines for Organizational Learning in the Organizational Cybernetics Framework.- Newcomers in Self-Organising Task Groups: A Pilot Study.- Learning and Belief Dissemination Through Co-action.- The Emergence of Social Networks from Interactive Learning.- Guess You're Right on This One Too: Central and Peripheral Processing in Attitude Changes in Large Populations.- Vulnerability of Cooperation on Scale-Free Networks.- Evolution ofCompassion Under Un-Repeated Interaction.- The Signals of Play: An ABM of Affective Signatures in Children's Playgroups.- e*plore v.0: Principia for Strategic Exploration of Social Simulation Experiments Design Space.- Hominids Foraging in a Complex Landscape: Could Homo ergaster and Australopithecus boisei Meet Their Calories Requirements?.- Dynamics of Task Oriented Agent Behaviour in Multiple Layer Social Networks.- Modelling Migration in the Sahel: An Alternative to Cost-Benefit Analysis.- Case-Based Model of Emotional Expression Influence on Work Group Socialization and Performance.