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Can
you Improve Economic Forecasts? Some Lessons from Computability Theory - Scott Moss
and Bruce Edmonds
Evaluating
Competitive Strategies - Scott Moss, Huw Dixon and Steve Wallis
Modelling
Learning as Modelling -Scott Moss and Bruce Edmonds
Efficient Forward Chaining for Declarative Rules in a Multi-Agent Modelling Language - Steve Wallis and Scott Moss
A
Formal Preference-State Model with Qualitative Market Judgements - Scott Moss
and Bruce Edmonds
Axelrod
Meets Cournot: Oligopoly and the Evolutionary Metaphor, part 1 - Huw Dixon,
Steve Wallis and Scott Moss
What
is Complexity? - The philosophy of complexity per se with
application to some examples in evolution.
- Bruce Edmonds
Modelling
the Process of Market Emergence - Scott Moss and Olga Kuznetsova
A Top-Down Approach to Lexical Acquisition and Segmentation - Helen Gaylard and P. Hancox
Pragmatic
Holism - Bruce Edmonds
Logic,
Reasoning and A Programming Language for Simulating Economic and
Business Processes with Artificially Intelligent Agents - Bruce
Edmonds, Scott Moss and
Steve Wallis
Modelling
Bounded Rationality using Evolutionary Techniques - Bruce
Edmonds and Scott Moss
Modeling
R&D Strategy as a Network Search Problem - Scott Moss,
Bruce Edmonds
and Helen Gaylard
Rulebase-Driven Non-Linear Analysis of Competative Structure - Michael Campbell, Scott Moss and Clive Simms
The
Possible Irreducibility of Artificial Software Life - Bruce Edmonds
A
Simple-Minded Network Model with Context-like Objects - Bruce Edmonds
SDML:
A Multi-Agent Language for Organizational Modelling -Scott Moss,
Helen Gaylard, Steve Wallis and Bruce Edmonds
Combining
Evolutionary Computing Techniques to Find Credible Qualitative
Descriptions of the Demand-Side of Markets
- Bruce Edmonds, Scott Moss and Helen Gaylard
The
Role of Incremental Learning in the Acquisition of Phrase Structure - Helen Gaylard
A
Cognitive Approach to Modelling Structural Change - Helen Gaylard
Development,
Re-Representation, and Epistemology in Language Acquisition: Commentary
on the Precis of Beyond Modularity by Kariloff-Smith- Helen Gaylard
Autonomy,
Consent, and Written Consent - Helen Gaylard
Complexity
and Scientific Modelling - Bruce Edmonds
From
Complexity to Agent Modelling and Back Again - some implications for
economics - Bruce Edmonds
Validation
and Verification of Computational Models with Multiple Agents - Scott Moss,
Bruce Edmonds and Steve Wallis
Modelling
Socially Intelligent Agents - Bruce Edmonds
The
Possible Incommensurability of Utilities and the Learning of Goals- Bruce Edmonds
Artificially
Intelligent Specification and Analysis of Context-Dependent Attribute
Preferences - Bruce Edmonds, Scott Moss and Helen Gaylard
A
Re-analysis of the Effects of Task Decomposition and Organizational
Structure on Performance and Robustness -
Helen Gaylard
Boundedly
versus Procedurally Rational Expectations -Scott Moss
Gossip, Sexual Recombination and the El Farol Bar: modelling the emergence of heterogeneity - Bruce Edmonds
Meta-Genetic
Programming: Co-evolving the Operators of Variation - Bruce Edmonds
Modelling
Bounded Rationality In Agent-Based Simulations using the Evolution of
Mental Models - Bruce Edmonds
Capturing
Social Embeddedness: a Constructivist Approach -Bruce Edmonds
Social
Simulation Models and Reality: Three Approaches - Scott Moss
Hierarchical
Organization of Robots: A Social Simulation Study - Scott Moss and Kerstin
Dautenhahn
On
Modelling in Memetics - Bruce Edmonds
Papers from the workshop on Socially Situated Intelligence
Experiments
on human-robot communication with Robota, an imitative learning and
communication doll robot - Aude Billard,Kerstin
Dautenhahn and Gillian
Hayes
Social
Intelligence as Norm Adaptation - Magnus Boman and Harko Verhagen
Toward
teaching a robot `infant' using emotive communication acts- Cynthia Breazeal and Juan Velasquez
The
Evolutionary Emergence of Socially Intelligent Agents - Alastair
Channon and Robert
Damper
The
Contribution of Society to the Construction of Individual Intelligence - Bruce Edmonds
and Kerstin
Dautenhahn
Positioning
the analysis: Memetics as a methodological tool to close the ranks
between social and traditional history - Rogan
Jacobson
The
Social Dimension of Economics and Multiagent Systems-Adolfo López Paredes and Ricardo
del Olmo MartÃnez
Modelling and Evolution of Social Trends in Virtual Environments - MarÃa-Isabel Sánchez-Segura, Ricardo Imbert, Angélica de Antonio and Javier Segovia
Social
Embeddedness and Agent Development - Bruce Edmonds
Integrating
Physical and Social Modelling: The Example of Climate Change - Scott Moss
and Claudia
Pahl-Wostl
Critical
Incident Management: An Empirically Derived Computational Model - Scott Moss
Canonical Task Environments for Social Simulation - Scott Moss
A
Proposal for the Establishment of Review Boards - a flexible approach
to the selection of academic knowledge - Bruce Edmonds
The
Cost of Rational Agency - Scott Moss
The
Pragmatic Roots of Context - Bruce Edmonds
The
Constructability of Artificial Intelligence (as defined by the Turing
Test) - Bruce Edmonds
Towards
a Descriptive Model of Agent Strategy Search - Bruce Edmonds
Syntactic
Measures of Complexity (Doctoral Thesis)
- Bruce Edmonds
Relevance, Realism and Rigour: A Third Way for Social and Economic Research - Scott Moss
Towards
Implementing Free Will - Bruce Edmonds
Developing
Agents Who Can Relate To Us - putting agents in ourloop via
situated self-creation - Bruce Edmonds
Papers from the symposium on Starting from Society
Intelligent
Social Learning - Rosario
Conte
Reverse
Engineering of Societies - A Biological Perspective - Kerstin Dautenhahn
The
Archeology of Artificial Societies - Jim Doran
Recognition
of investment opportunities and generation of investment cycles - Guido
Fioretti
A
New Look into Garbage Cans - Petri Nets and Organisational Choice- Sven
Heitsch, Daniela Hinck and Marcel Martens
Having
a Sense of Ourselves: Technology and Personal Identity - Leslie
Henrickson
Modelling
Agents using the Hotel Analogy: Sanitised for your Protection? - Lindsay
Marshall and Savas
Parastatidis
The
Making of Meaning in Societies: Semiotic &
Information-Theoretic Background to the Evolution of Communication -Christopher
Nehaniv
Imitation
and Reinformcement Learning with Heterogeneous Actions - Bob Price and
Craig Boutilier
Socially
Competent Business Agents with Attitude - Using Habitus-Field Theory to
Design Agents with Social Competence - Michael Schillo, Steve Allen, Klaus Fischer and Christof Klein
Introducing
Emotions into the Computational Study of Social Norms - Alexander
Staller and Paolo Petta
The Society of Mind Requires an Economy of Mind - Ian Wright
The
Power Law and Critical Density in Large Multi Agent Systems - Scott Moss,Bruce Edmonds and Steve Wallis
Mapping
the Envelope of Social Simulation Trajectories - Oswaldo
Terán, Bruce
Edmonds and Steve
Wallis
Determining
the Envelope of Emergent Agent Behaviour via Architectural
Transformation - Oswaldo Terán, Bruce Edmonds and Steve Wallis
The
Use of Models - making MABS actually work - Bruce Edmonds
The
Purpose and Place of Formal Systems in the Development of Science - Bruce Edmonds
Demonstrating the Role of Stakeholder Participation: An Agent Based Social Simulation Model of Water Demand Policy and Response - Scott Moss, Thomas E. Downing and Juliette Rouchier
What
if all truth is context dependent? - Bruce Edmonds
Learning
Appropriate Contexts - Bruce Edmonds
Competition
in Intermediated Markets: Statistical signatures and critical densities
- Scott
Moss
Game
Theory: Limitations and an Alternative -
Scott Moss
The
Importance of Representing Cognitive Processes in Multi-Agent
Models - Bruce Edmonds and Scott Moss
Against
Prior Theorising - Bruce Edmonds
Policy
analysis from First Principles - Scott Moss
Intuition
and Observation in the Design of Multi Agent Systems - Scott Moss
Learning
and Exploiting Context in Agents - Bruce Edmonds
Emergent Tendencies in Multi-Agent-based Simulations: using Constraint-based Methods to Effect Practical Proofs over Finite Subsets of Simulation Outcomes (Doctoral Thesis) - Oswaldo Terán
Surviving
on a Sand-Pile: an investigation as to the type of behaviour that
evolves in the presence of crises - Bruce Edmonds
Cooperation
and Specialisation without Kin Selection -
David Hales
Smart
Agents Don’t Need Kin - Evolving Specialisation and Cooperation
with Tags - David Hales
Wise-Up!
- Smart Tag Pairing Evolves and Persists-
David Hales
Towards
an Ideal Social Simulation Language - Bruce Edmonds and Steve Wallis
Policy
Modelling with ABSS: The Case of Water Demand Management - Olivier Barthelemy, Scott Moss,
Thomas Downing and Juliette Rouchier
Modelling
Software Organisations - David Hales and Chris Douce
Exploring
the Value of Prediction in an Artificial Stock Market - Bruce Edmonds
The
Social Embedding of Intelligence - Towards producing a machine that
could pass the Turing Test - Bruce Edmonds
Understanding
Our Creations: Using Machine Learning to Understand Machine models - David Hales
Integrating
Domain Expertise With Aggregate Data Using Evolutionary Computation - Bruce Edmonds
and Scott Moss
Computational
Complexity of a Constraint Model-based Proof of the Envelope of
Tendencies in a MAS-based Simulation Model
- Oswaldo Terán
and Bruce Edmonds
Simplicity
is Not Truth-Indicative - Bruce Edmonds
Universality,
simulation and Ultimate Truth - V. Lewscogski,Bruce Edmonds and David Hales
Group
Reputation Supports Beneficent Norms: A Case of
“them� and “us� - David Hales
How
Formal Logic Can Fail to be Useful for Modelling or Designing MAS - Bruce Edmonds
Domestic
Water Demand and Social Influence – an agent-based modelling
approach - Bruce Edmonds, Olivier Barthelemy, and Scott Moss
Evolving Social Rationality for MAS using “Tags� - David Hales and Bruce Edmonds
Sociology
and Simulation: Statistical and Qualitative Cross-Validation - Bruce
Edmonds and Scott Moss
Computational
Simulation as Theoretical Experiment - Bruce Edmonds and David Hales
Climate
Change and the Demand for Water - Downing,
T.E, Butterfield, R.E., Edmonds, B., Knox, J.W., Moss, S., Piper, B.S.
and Weatherhead, E.K. (and the CCDeW project team) [Links to
the SEI report]
Evolutionary
Units and Adaptive Intelligence: Why a brain can not be produced by
internal evolutionary processes (but could be composed of such) - Bruce Edmonds
Neg-o-net-
a negotiation simulation test-bed - David Hales
Papers from the Model to Model workshop
Comparative
analysis of agent-based social simulations: GeoSim and FEARLUS models - Claudio Cioffi-Revilla and Nicholas M.
Gotts
Simulations
of Group Dynamics with Different Models -
Jürgen Klüver and Christina
Stoica
Individual-based
model to enrich an aggregate model - Raphaël
Duboz, Frédéric Amblard, Eric
Ramat, Guillaume Deffuant, Philippe Preux
Comparing
individual-based model of behaviour diffusion with its mean field
aggregated approximation - Margaret
Edwards, Sylvie Huet, François Goreaud, Guillaume Deffuant
Re-implementing
John Duffy’s model of speculative learning agents in a small
scale society: Problems, interest and issues - Juliette Rouchier
Replication,
Replication and Replication - Some Hard Lessons from Model Alignment - Bruce Edmonds and David
Hales
Stochastic Collusion and the Power Law of Learning: A General Reinforcement Learning Model of Cooperation - Andreas Flache and Michael Macy
Can
Tags Build Working Systems? - From MABS to ESOA - David Hales
and Bruce Edmonds
Simulation
and Complexity - how they can relate - Bruce Edmonds
The
Design And Use Of Integrated And Agent-Based Models For Freshwater
Resource Management - Report Of Workpackage 3 Of The Firma Project - Bruce Edmonds
and other members of the FIRMA
Project
When
and why does haggling occur? - Some
lessons from a qualitative but computational simulation of negotiation - Bruce Edmonds
The
impact of the model structure in social simulations - Olivier
Barthélémy
How
To Be Loyal, Rich And Have Fun Too: The
Fun Is Yet To Come - Juliette
Rouchier and David Hales
Agent-Based
Modelling Incorporating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods: A Case Study Investigating the Impact of E-commerce upon
the Value Chain - Richard Taylor
Implementing
Free Will - Bruce Edmonds
Stress,
budget constraints and expectation. Can simulation help study more
precisely models that can be deduced from experimental economics? - Juliette
Rouchier and Stéphane
Robin
Beyond
the Design Stance: The Intention of
Agent-Based Engineering - Bruce Edmonds and Joanna Bryson
How are physical and social spaces related? - cognitive agents as the necessary "glue" - Bruce Edmonds
The
Insufficiency of Formal Design Methods - the
necessity of an experimental approach for the understanding and control
of complex MAS - Bruce
Edmonds and Joanna
Bryson
Against
the inappropriate use of numerical representation in social simulation - Bruce Edmonds
Interaction
Routines and Selfish Behaviours in an Artificial Market -
Transferring field observations of a wholesale fruits and vegetables
market into a multi-agent model - Juliette
Rouchier
Using
the Experimental Method to Produce Reliable Self-Organised Systems - Bruce Edmonds
From
KISS to KIDS – an ‘anti-simplistic’
modelling approach - Bruce Edmonds and Scott Moss
A
Laboratory Experiment of Knowledge Diffusion Dynamics - Andrea Morone, Piergiuseppe Morone and Richard Taylor
Fashioning
social simulations into engineering tools – the case of
cooperation on P2P networks - David Hales and Bruce Edmonds
Towards
Good Social Science - Scott Moss and Bruce Edmonds
Sociologically
Inspired Engineering - David Hales and Bruce Edmonds
Agent-Based
Modelling Incorporating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods: A Case Study Investigating the Impact of E-commerce upon
the Value Chain (Doctoral Thesis) - Richard Taylor
Artificial
Science – a simulation
test-bed for studying the social processes of science - Bruce Edmonds
What
lies beyond geographical proximity: an investigation into
multirelational networks -
Piergiuseppe Morone, Roberta Sisto and Richard Taylor
The
Emergence of Symbiotic Groups Resulting From Skill-Differentiation and
Tags - Bruce Edmonds
Engineering
Emergence through Gossip - Márk
Jelasity
Using
Localised ‘Gossip’ to Structure Distributed Learning - Bruce Edmonds
Comparison
of Reproduction Schemes in an Artificial Society for Cooperative
Gathering - Gusz Eiben, G.S. Nitschke, and Martijn Schut
A
Social Semantic Infrastructure for Decentralised Systems Based on
Specification-Carrying Code and Trust - Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo,
and Michel Deriaz
Towards
a Simulation Tool for Evaluating Dynamic Reorganization of Agent
Societies - Virginia Dignum, Frank Dignum, Liz Sonenberg, Vasco Futado,
and Adriano Melo
Two-Sides
of Emergence in Participatory Simulations
- Paul Guyot, and
Alexis Drogoul
Agent-based
participatory simulation activities for the emergence of complex social
behaviours - Stefano
Cacciaguerra, and Matteo
Roffilli
Engineering
with Sociological Metaphors: Examples and Prospects - David Hales
Facilitating
the Comparison of Social Simulations using E-science - Bruce Edmonds
How
are physical and social spaces related? – cognitive agents as
the necessary “glue� - Bruce Edmonds
Innovation,
Networks and Proximity: an Applied Evolutionary Model - Richard Taylor
and Piergiuseppe Morone
Knowledge,
Innovation and Economic Geography - Richard Taylor and Piergiuseppe
Morone
Assessing
the Safety of (Numerical) Representation in Social Simulation - Bruce Edmonds
Towards
a Descriptive Simulation of Russian Food Supply Chains - Bruce Edmonds
Diversity
in Food Systems: The Case of Stockfree Organic - Richard Taylor
and Piergiuseppe Morone
The
Nature of Noise - Bruce Edmonds
Dialogues
concerning a (possibly) new science - Guillaume
Deffuant, Wander
Jager and Scott Moss
When
Simple Measures Fail: Characterising Social Networks Using Simulation - Bruce Edmonds and Edmund Chattoe
Integrating Learning and Inference using Cognitive Context - Bruce Edmonds and Emma Norling
Emergence
in and Engineering of Complex MAS - Bruce
Edmonds and Emma Norling
Constraint
Model-based Exploration of Simulation Trajectories in a MABS Model - Oswaldo Terán
and Bruce Edmonds
To
the Outer Limits and Beyond - characterising the envelope of sets of
social simulation trajectories - Bruce Edmonds,
Oswaldo
Terán and Gary
Polhill
Untangling
Scenario Components with Agent Based Modelling: an Example of Social Simulations of Water Demand Forecasts (Doctoral Thesis) -
Olivier
Barthélémy
(Towards)
Finding Suitable Analysis Techniques for Agent-based Networks Generated
from Social Processes - Shah Jamal Alam and Ruth Meyer
Modelling
the Socioecnomic Impact of HIV/AIDS in South Africa - Shah Jamal
Alam, Ruth Meyer
and Gina Ziervogel
CAVES
(Complexity, Agents, Volatility, Evidence and Scale) Month 18 Progress
Report - compiled by Ruth Meyer and contributed by
members of the CAVES Project
Using
Agent-Based Modeling to Understand the Impact of HIV/AIDS in the
Context of Socio-Economic Stressors - Shah Jamal Alam, Ruth Meyer and Emma Norling
Complex
Networks and Agent-based Social Networks: A Synopsis - Shah Jamal Alam
Documentation
of Groundwater Agent-based Model - Richard Taylor
Modelling Knowledge Production and Integration in Working Environments - Piergiuseppe Morone and Richard Taylor
Towards
a manifesto for open simulation - Gary
Polhill and Bruce
Edmonds
The
Practical Modelling of Context-Dependent Causal Processes – A
Recasting of Robert Rosen’s Thought
- Bruce Edmonds
Towards
the Evolution of Social Structure - Bruce Edmonds and Emma Norling
Agent-based Model of Impact of Socioeconomic Stressors: A Dynamic Network Perspective - Shah Jamal Alam, Ruth Meyer and Emma Norling
Transaction
Cost Theory goes ABSS: Can
Agent-Based Social Simulation be helpful in understanding economic
theories? - Bogdan Werth, Scott Moss and Shah Jamal Alam
Signatures
in Networks Generated from Agent-based Social Simulation Models - Shah
Jamal Alam, Ruth Meyer
and Bruce Edmonds
Econometrics
and Policy Analysis: A Critique and
an Alternative - Scott Moss
Alternative
Approaches to the Empirical Validation of Agent-Based Models - Scott Moss
The
Afghan nexus: Anomie,
neo-patrimonialism and the emergence of small-world networks - Armando
Geller and Scott Moss
Growing
qawms: A case-based
declarative model of Afghan power structures - Armando
Geller and Scott Moss
Power,
Resources, and Violence in Contemporary Conflict: Artificial Evidence -
Armando Geller
Analyzing
Dynamic Friendship Networks using Subgraph Characteristics - Shah Jamal
Alam and Ruth Meyer
A
Bus Passengers' Seating Preference Model -
Shah Jamal Alam and Bogdan Werth
He endorses me - He endorses me not - He endorses me - Contextualized reasoning in complex systems -Bogdan Werth, Armando Geller and Ruth Meyer
Achieving
Consensus Among Agents - an opinion-dynamics model - Bruce
Edmonds
A
Model for HIV Spread in a South African Village - Shah Jamal
Alam, Ruth Meyer and Emma Norling
Simplicity,
generality and truth in social modelling -
Scott Moss
A
Brief Survey of Some Results on Mechanisms and Emergent Outcomes - Bruce Edmonds
Comparing
Two Sexual Mixing Schemes for Modelling the Spread of HIV/AIDS - Shah Jamal Alam and Ruth Meyer
Normative
behaviour in Wikipedia - Chris
Goldspink, Bruce Edmonds
and Nigel
Gilbert
Advancing
Learning and Evolutionary Game Theory with an Application to Social
Dilemmas (Doctoral Thesis) - Luis R. Izquierdo
Dynamics
of social conventions in microfinance groups: an experience in Chiapas,
Mexico. (Fieldwork report.) - Pablo Lucas
Towards
analysing social norms in microfinance groups - Pablo Lucas, Federico Morales
Barragán, and Ignacio GarcÃa
Policy Modelling: Problems and Prospects - Scott Moss
System Farming - Bruce Edmonds
CPM-08-199
Bootstrapping Knowledge about Social Phenomena using Simulation Models - Bruce Edmonds
This paper left intentionally blank - Bruce Edmonds
Relating Financial characterisation of Microfinance Groups to Conventional Social Behaviour - Pablo Lucas
Usefulness of Simulating Social Phenomena
- Pablo Lucas
Understanding
Observed Complex Systems - the hard
complexity problem - Bruce Edmonds
CPM-10-204
Disaggregating Quality Judgements - Bruce Edmonds
CPM-10-205
Agent-Based Social Simulation and its
necessity for understanding socially embedded phenomena - Bruce Edmonds
CPM-10-206
EMIL-T:
The final report of the EU 6FP EMIL Project (EMergence In the Loop:
simulating the two way dynamics of norm innovation) - Rosaria Conte
et al.
CPM-10-207
Unpacking Public Discussion – developing an open forest
of political argument - Bruce Edmonds
CPM-10-208
Understanding Social Complexity in the
Context of HIV/AIDS:
A Case Study in Rural South Africa (Doctoral Thesis)
– Shah Jamal Alam
CPM-10-209
Complexity and Context-Dependency -
Bruce Edmonds
CPM-10-210
Context and Social Simulation -
Bruce Edmonds
CPM-10-211
Data-Integration Models (Poster) -
Bruce Edmonds
An
agent-based model of the development of friendship links within
Facebook - Ali Abbas
Ethnic diversity in
Facebook - Ali Abbas
CPM-11-214
Uncertainty in IT Outsourcing of Large
Financial Institutions (Doctoral Thesis) – Bogdan Werth
Ordinal Pattern Analysis: A simple method for assessing simulation-observation fit - Warren Thorngate and Bruce Edmonds
Personalising Learning with Dynamic Prediction and Adaptation to Learning Styles in a Conversational Intelligent Tutoring System (Doctoral Thesis) - Annabel Latham
CPM-12-218
A transdisciplinary approach to modelling complex
social-ecological problems in coastal ecosystems - John Forrester and Richard Taylor