Meeting the Challenge of Social Problems Via Agent-Based Simulation: Post-Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Agent-Based Approaches i (Hardcover, 2003)

I: Economic Systems.- Economics as Distributed Computation.- Dynamic Resource Allocation of Investment and Competitive Growth: R&D Investment and Capital Investment.- Wealth Distribution on Scale-Free Networks.- II: Marketing and Management.- U-Mart: An Artificial Market Testbed for Economics and Multiagent Systems.- The Statistical Properties of Price Fluctuation by Computer Agent in U-Mart Virtual Futures Market Simulator.- Study on a Dynamic Resource Allocation for a Communication Network Based on a Market-based Model.- Human-Agent Participation in a Business Simulator.- A Role of Micro-macro Loop for Knowledge Creation by Heterogeneous Agents.- How to Share Knowledge Effectively?.- III: Social Systems and Methodology.- Agent-Based Computational Macro-economics: A Survey.- The X-MAS SYSTEM: Toward Simulation Systems for Cross-model-validation in Multiagent-Based Simulations.- A Study on Pedestrian Flow by Using an Agent Model - A Simulation Analysis on the Asagiri Overpass Accident, 2001 -.- Author Index.- Keyword Index.