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Subject: TR: J. Artificial Societies and Social Simulation: Vol. 7(1) published
From: Francois Bousquet (f.bousquet@cgiar.org)
Date: Thu Feb 05 2004 - 03:22:00 CET
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[mailto:owner-jasss-reg-readers@soc.surrey.ac.uk]De la part de Nigel
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Objet : J. Artificial Societies and Social Simulation: Vol. 7(1)
published
The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
(http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/) published the first issue of Volume 7
on 31 January.
JASSS is an electronic, refereed journal devoted to the exploration and
understanding of social processes by means of computer simulation. It
is located at <http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS/>. It is freely
available, with no subscription.
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In this issue, Franziska Kluegl and Ana L. C. Bazzan develop an
agent-based traffic management model of driver decision making and
compare their results with empirical data, showing that the simulation
yields similar behaviour to that observed with experiments with 'real'
traffic.
Multiplicative models of firm dynamics using ideas originally
formulated by Gibrat in 1930 have become a standard reference in
industrial organization. However, some unpleasant properties of their
implied dynamics have been given little attention. Using simulations,
Matteo Richiardi investigates modifications to the standard
multiplicative model that lead to stable (and reasonable) distributions
of firm size.
Claudia Pahl-Wostl and Eva Ebenhoeh describe a social simulation model
based on an economic experiment about altruistic behavior. The
experiment showed that human participants made frequent use of costly
punishments in order to ensure continuing cooperation in a common pool
resource game. The model reproduces not only the aggregated but also
the individual data of the experiment.
Matthias Scheutz and Paul Schermerhorn investigate agent strategies in
games where agents compete for food in order to survive and have
offspring. They examine the utility of letting agents display their
action tendencies (e.g., "continue to play" vs. "quitting the game"),
which other agents can take into account when making their decisions.
Their results indicate that while making use of action tendency cues is
generally beneficial, there are situations in which agents using
stochastic decision mechanisms perform better, particularly when
competing with agents who lie.
Stephen Younger continues a series of reports about his studies of
simulated simple societies. Measures of economic and non-economic
rewards were tracked over many generations of agents acting within a
fixed environment and according to a constant behavioral rule set.
Communicating normative reputation enabled potential victims to avoid
theft without the necessity of personally experiencing the character of
every agent. It also optimized mutual obligation among agents, even
among aggressive agents.
In the Forum section, Robert Tobias and Carole Hofmann compare four
freely available programming libraries for support of social scientific
agent based computer simulation: RePast, Swarm, Quicksilver, and VSEit.
Based on the results of a thorough evaluation using specially
developed rating scales, they conclude that one of the libraries is
clearly better than the others (you will need to read the article to
find out which one!).
Catherine Dibble and Philip G. Feldman describe their GeoGraph 3D
extensions to the RePast agent-based simulation platform which supports
models in which mobile agents travel and interact on rugged terrain or
on network landscapes. Visualizations allow researchers to zoom and
pan within the simulation landscape as the model runs. Agents may be
displayed on network nodes either as individual agents or as dynamic 3D
bar charts that reflect the composition of each node's population. The
paper also briefly describes three representative GeoGraph models.
In review section, there are reviews of books on Information dynamics,
Computational intelligence, and Microsimulation.
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Peer-reviewed Articles
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Route Decision Behaviour in a Commuting Scenario: Simple Heuristics
Adaptation and Effect of Traffic Forecast
Franziska Kluegl and Ana L. C. Bazzan
Generalizing Gibrat: Reasonable Multiplicative Models of Firm Dynamics
Matteo Richiardi
An Adaptive Toolbox Model: a Pluralistic Modelling Approach for Human
Behaviour based on Observation
Claudia Pahl-Wostl and Eva Ebenhoeh
The Role of Signaling Action Tendencies in Conflict Resolution
Matthias Scheutz and Paul Schermerhorn
The Effect of Communicating Normative Reputation on the Benefits of
Resource Sharing in Simple Societies
Stephen Younger
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Forum (Editor: Klaus G. Troitzsch)
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Evaluation of free Java-libraries for social-scientific agent based
simulation
Robert Tobias and Carole Hofmann
The GeoGraph 3D Computational Laboratory: Network and Terrain
Landscapes for RePast
Catherine Dibble and Philip G. Feldman
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Book Reviews (Review editor: Edmund Chattoe)
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Information Dynamics: Foundations and Applications
Gustavo Deco and Bernd Schürmann
Reviewed by H. Van Dyke Parunak
Computational Intelligence: An Introduction
Andries P. Engelbrecht
Reviewed by Ana Maria Ramanath
Computational Intelligence in Games
Edited by Norio Baba and Lakhmi C. Jain
Reviewed by Takeshi Takama
Microsimulation in Government Policy and Forecasting
Edited by Anil Gupta and Vishnu Kapur
Reviewed by Douglas A. Wolf
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The new issue can be accessed through the JASSS home page:
<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS.html>.
The next issue wil be published at the end of March 2004.
Submissions are welcome: see
<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/admin/submit.html>
_______________________________________________________________________
Professor Nigel Gilbert, Editor, Journal of Artificial Societies and
Social Simulation, <http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS/>
Centre for Research on Social Simulation (CRESS)
Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.
Tel:+44 1483 689173 N.Gilbert@soc.surrey.ac.uk
<http://cress.soc.surrey.ac.uk/>
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