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From Barter to Market: an Agent-Based Model of Prehistoric Market Development
Despite interest in preindustrial markets, archaeological discussions have largely been limited to proposing methods to determine the presence or...
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Heterogeneous expectations in the housing market: a sugarscape agent-based model
This study examines the influence of heterogeneous expectations between buyers and sellers on housing market cycles. We propose an agent-based model...
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Constrained Multi-agent Path Planning Problem
Planning the most efficient routes in a cooperative manner is a challenge for many mobility and logistics service providers. In this paper, a new...
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Planning to ‘Hear the Farmer’s Voice’: an Agent-Based Modelling Approach to Agricultural Land Use Planning
Agricultural land use is influenced not only by multiple aspects of biophysical and socio-economic processes, but also the cumulative impacts of...
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Aligning agent-based testing (ABT) with the experimental research paradigm: a literature review and best practices
The study of algorithmically curated media environments through emulated browsing has become a key method of computational social science. Here, we...
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Economic and labour market impacts of migration in Austria: an agent-based modelling approach
This study examines the potential economic and labour market impacts of a hypothetical but plausible migration scenario of 250,000 new migrants...
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The “flat peer learning” agent-based model
This paper deals with peer learning and, in particular, with the phenomena of exclusion ; it proposes to model a group of learners where everyone has...
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Towards the entrepreneurial university: the principal-agent problem
The purpose of the paper is to explore how an individualized incentive system could increase professors’ motivation to contribute to the university’s...
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Sexual Citizenship, Nationalisms, and Bordering: Russian LGBT Activists and the ‘Foreign Agent Law’
This chapter addresses the struggles of Russian activists for LGBT recognition and rights against the backdrop of national, transnational, as well as...
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Evaluating community-driven cardiovascular health policy changes in the United States using agent-based modeling
Comprehensive smoke-free policy is a strategy to prevent cardiovascular disease (CVD) at a population-level; however, evaluating their long-term...
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Agent-Based Modelling of Worker Exploitation Slave from the Machine
This book illustrates the potential for computer simulation in the study of modern slavery and worker abuse, and by extension in all social issues....
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Two sides of the same leader: an agent-based model to analyze the effect of ambivalent opinion leaders in social networks
Opinion leaders (OLs) are becoming increasingly relevant on social networking sites as their visibility can help to shape their followers’ attitudes...
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Need-Based Transfers Enhance Resilience to Shocks: An Agent-Based Model of a Maasai Risk-Pooling System
Maasai and other Maa-speaking pastoralists in Kenya and Tanzania have a risk-pooling system that they refer to by their word for the umbilical cord ( osotua...
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On understanding the impacts of shared public transportation on urban traffic and road safety using an agent-based simulation with heterogeneous fleets: a case study of Casablanca city
Simulation and computer modeling have a key role in understanding transportation systems. Focusing on the main system, real-time retrieval of outputs...
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Agent-based modeling for migration and modern slavery research: a systematic review
This systematic review aims to synthesize how agent-based modeling (ABM) has been used in migration and modern slavery research and provide the basis...
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Agent-Based Modelling and Simulation with Domain-Specific Languages
Conducting simulation studies within a model-based framework is a complex process, in which many different concerns must be considered. Central tasks...
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Understanding Implementation of Citizen’s Charter as Agent of Change
This chapter explores the contribution of implementation of the citizen’s charter in bringing about changes in service delivery system of the City...
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Reputation systems and recruitment in online labor markets: insights from an agent-based model
Online labor markets—freelance marketplaces, where digital labor is distributed via a web-based platform—commonly use reputation systems to overcome...
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Agent-Based Models: Tools
The methodological focus of this book is the object- and agent-based simulation. No state equations or system dynamics schemes are used. Recall that...