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Putting the agent in agent-based modeling

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Michael P. WellmanAuthors Info & Claims

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Volume 30, Issue 6

Pages 1175 - 1189

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10458-016-9336-6

Published: 01 November 2016 Publication History

Abstract

One of the perquisites of a talk like this is that I get to expound on broad themes. AAMAS is a conference about agents and multiples of agents, so I probably ought to say something about agents. Of course, my position on agents is that I am all for them. Today I'd like to make a case for actually putting agents in agent-based models. I hope that by the end of the talk you have some idea about what I mean by this.

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Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Volume 30, Issue 6

November 2016

169 pages

ISSN:1387-2532

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