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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-12-218A transdisciplinary approach to modelling complex social-ecological problems in coastal ecosystems - John Forrester and Richard Taylor
CPM-13-220