Managing Complexity: Practical Considerations in the Development and Application of ABMS to Contemporary Policy Challenges

Book Overview

Addressing Complex Challenges in an Interconnected World.- Complexity: Where Does It Come from?.- An Overview of Agent Based Models.- Running the System: Prediction and Intervention.- The ACSES Model of Afghanistan: Introduction and Social Theories.- The ACSES Model of Afghanistan: The Model Operation, Synthetic Population, Calibration, and Surprises.- Implementation Influences.- Towards a Characterization and Systematic Evaluation Framework for Theories and Models of Human, Social, Behavioral, and Cultural Processes Within Agent-Based Models.- Lessons Learned from the ACSES Model.- Advancing Social Science through Agent-Based Modeling.- Additional Problems.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 364243598X
• ISBN13: 9783642435980
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 173 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"