Agent-based modeling/simulation is an emergent approach to the analysis of social and economic systems. It provides a bottom-up experimental method to be applied to social sciences such as economics, management, sociology, and politics as well as some engineering fields dealing with social activities. This book includes selected papers presented at the Fifth International Workshop on Agent-Based Approaches in Economic and Social Complex Systems held in Tokyo in 2007. It contains two invited papers given as the plenary and invited talks in the workshop and 21 papers presented in the six regular sessions: Organization and Management; Fundamentals of Agent-Based and Evolutionary Approaches; Production, Services and Urban Systems; Agent-Based Approaches to Social Systems; and Market and Economics I and II. The research presented here shows the state of the art in this rapidly growing field.

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Plenary Talk.- Genetic Programming and Agent-Based Computational Economics: From Autonomous Agents to Product Innovation.- Invited Talk.- Simulating the Emergence of Complex Cultural Beliefs.- Organization and Management.- Synchronization in Mobile Agents and Effects of Network Topology.- Evaluation of Mass User Support Strategies in Theme Park Problem.- Agent-based simulation to analyze business office activities using reinforcement learning.- Fundamentals of Agent-Based and Evolutionary Approaches.- A Model of Mental Model Formation in a Social Context.- A Thought on the Continuity Hypothesis and the Origin of Societal Evolution.- Modeling a small agent society based on social choice logic programming.- Production, Services and Urban Systems.- Modeling and Development of an Autonomous Pedestrian Agent As a Simulation Tool for Crowd Analysis for Spatial Design.- Agent-Based Adaptive Production Scheduling A Study on Cooperative-Competition in Federated Agent Architecture.- A Simulation Analysis of Shop-around Behavior in a Commercial District as an Intelligent Agent Approach -A Case Study of Osu District of Nagoya City-.- Interacting Advertising and Production Strategies A Model Approach on Customers' Communication Networks.- Agent-Based Approaches to Social Systems.- A Method to Translate Customers' Actions in Store into the Answers of Questionnaire for Conjoint Analysis.- Agent-Based Simulation of Learning Social Norms in Traffic Signal Systems.- Discovery of Family Tradition with Inverse Simulation.- Analysis of Focal Information of Individuals: Gaming Approach to C2C Market.- Market and Economy I.- Social Network Characteristics and the Evolution of Investor Sentiment.- From the simplest price formation models to paradigm of agent-based computationalfinance: a first step.- On Emergence of Money in Self-organizing Doubly Structural Network Model.- Market and Economy II.- Scale-Free Networks Emerged in the Markets: Human Traders versus Zero-Intelligence Traders.- A Model of Market Structure Dynamics with Boundedly Rational Agents.- Agent-based Analysis of Lead User Innovation in Consumer Product Market.- Agent-Based Stochastic Model of Barter and Monetary Exchange.