Transactions of the Society for Computer Simulation …, 1997
... From computer simulation to artificial societies. Author: Jim Doran, Published in: · Journal.... more ... From computer simulation to artificial societies. Author: Jim Doran, Published in: · Journal. Transactions of the Society for Computer Simulation International - Special issue: multi-agent systems and simulation archive. Volume ...
Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 1998
It appears that what the agents in a multiple agent system believe is typically partial, often wr... more It appears that what the agents in a multiple agent system believe is typically partial, often wrong and often inconsistent, but that this may not be damaging to the system as a whole. Beliefs which are demonstrably wrong I call misbeliefs. Experiments are reported which ...
Social simulation, agents and artificial societies
Proceedings International Conference on Multi Agent Systems (Cat. No.98EX160)
Abstract Computer simulation in support of the social sciences is far from new. But, with one or ... more Abstract Computer simulation in support of the social sciences is far from new. But, with one or two exceptions, notably certain types of economic modeling, it has never become a major weapon in the social scientists armoury. However, in the last few years developments in ...
This book is concerned with a particular approach lo lhe study of socteües, primarily human socie... more This book is concerned with a particular approach lo lhe study of socteües, primarily human societies, that has been fruitful in the past and appears likely to be even more so in the future. This is the use of precisely sped Tied simulation models, often formulated and run on computers, to recreate and study essential aspects of societies. The central advantage оГ precise modelling is that when results are obtained they are obtained objectively and repeatably: The disadvantage is that drawing any conclusions at all becomes a technically ...
IEEE Workshop on Distributed Intelligent Systems: Collective Intelligence and Its Applications (DIS'06)
Modelling a Typical Guerrilla War Jim Doran Department of Computer Science University of Essex do... more Modelling a Typical Guerrilla War Jim Doran Department of Computer Science University of Essex [email protected] ... Part of the motivation for these experiments has been to test foco theory as propounded by Guevara and Debray ([3], page 170-1) following Castro's success. ...
Questions in the Methodology of Artificial Societies
Tools and Techniques for Social Science Simulation, 2000
... Questions in the Methodology of Artificial Societies. Author: Jim Doran, Published in: · Proc... more ... Questions in the Methodology of Artificial Societies. Author: Jim Doran, Published in: · Proceeding. Tools and Techniques for Social Science Simulation. ... top of page ABSTRACT. An abstract is not available. top of page AUTHORS. Jim Doran No contact information provided yet. ...
Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, 1997
Abstract Can archaeologists help software engineers unravel what has been happening in an artific... more Abstract Can archaeologists help software engineers unravel what has been happening in an artificial society of intelligent agents? We discuss the methods that archaeologists regularly use and how they relate to the properties of an artificial society and the problems ...
... that merely act, at best, as a sounding board for a particular social science perspective. ..... more ... that merely act, at best, as a sounding board for a particular social science perspective. ... Does this suggest that agent-based modelling can never be of practical importance? ... that this move towards decentralised management is at root no more than an emotional and ideological ...
Review of Simulating Change: Archaeology into the Twenty-First Century (Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry)
Cover of book The contributors to this thought-provoking volume address two major questions conce... more Cover of book The contributors to this thought-provoking volume address two major questions concerning agent-based modelling in archaeology: is such modelling going to play a substantial role in archaeological studies in the future, and, if so, why has it not ...
Using computers to simulate naturally occurring societies is a rapidly growing area of research [... more Using computers to simulate naturally occurring societies is a rapidly growing area of research [1],[2]. Much of the ongoing work is targeted at non-human societies (often in the 'artificial life'tradition), but some is aiming to use AI and Distributed AI to gain insight into ...
Formal methods and archaeological theory: A perspective
World Archaeology, 1986
... In Mortality and Immortality: the Anthropology and Archaeology of Death (eds SC Humphries and... more ... In Mortality and Immortality: the Anthropology and Archaeology of Death (eds SC Humphries and H. King). New York: Academic Press. pp. ... Mortuary Variability: an Archaeological Investigation. ... Middle-range theory in archaeology: a critical review of origins and applications. ...
Algorithmic analysis of models is quite common in general, but is rarely attempted in the context... more Algorithmic analysis of models is quite common in general, but is rarely attempted in the context of agent-based social simulation. We explore the algorithmic analysis of simulation models that take the form of production systems as these are defined in computer science. Several implemented analysis algorithms for a particular type of production system are discussed, including algorithms for agent discovery and for model abstraction. Examples of the use of these algorithms are given and their potential briefly considered.
Abstract: Planned intervention to achieve stakeholder cooperation and coalition is essential for ... more Abstract: Planned intervention to achieve stakeholder cooperation and coalition is essential for successful environmental management. Agent-based modelling on a computer has the potential to build a practical theory of intervention in this and related contexts. Potentially ...
This report is the result of a panel discussion at the Second UK Workshop on Foundations of Multi... more This report is the result of a panel discussion at the Second UK Workshop on Foundations of Multi-Agent Systems (FOMAS'97). All members of the panel are authors, listed alphabetically.
Central to sustainable natural resource management is the achievement of cooperation and collecti... more Central to sustainable natural resource management is the achievement of cooperation and collective action amongst stakeholders with initially conflicting short and long-term goals. It is argued that automatically generated agent-based computer models may be used to explore the ways in which external intervention can bring about effective stakeholder cooperation in environmental resource management contexts. The potential advantages of the agent-based modelling approach in this context include objectivity, and the discovery of currently unrecognised intervention strategies of practical value. An experimental procedure is proposed, and, by reference to a detailed design for a class of agent-based models, the technical obstacles that must be surmounted before this potential can be realised are examined. They include combinatorial complexity, and difficulty in the interpretation of a model's behaviour in human social terms.
Transactions of the Society for Computer Simulation …, 1997
... From computer simulation to artificial societies. Author: Jim Doran, Published in: · Journal.... more ... From computer simulation to artificial societies. Author: Jim Doran, Published in: · Journal. Transactions of the Society for Computer Simulation International - Special issue: multi-agent systems and simulation archive. Volume ...
Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 1998
It appears that what the agents in a multiple agent system believe is typically partial, often wr... more It appears that what the agents in a multiple agent system believe is typically partial, often wrong and often inconsistent, but that this may not be damaging to the system as a whole. Beliefs which are demonstrably wrong I call misbeliefs. Experiments are reported which ...
Social simulation, agents and artificial societies
Proceedings International Conference on Multi Agent Systems (Cat. No.98EX160)
Abstract Computer simulation in support of the social sciences is far from new. But, with one or ... more Abstract Computer simulation in support of the social sciences is far from new. But, with one or two exceptions, notably certain types of economic modeling, it has never become a major weapon in the social scientists armoury. However, in the last few years developments in ...
This book is concerned with a particular approach lo lhe study of socteües, primarily human socie... more This book is concerned with a particular approach lo lhe study of socteües, primarily human societies, that has been fruitful in the past and appears likely to be even more so in the future. This is the use of precisely sped Tied simulation models, often formulated and run on computers, to recreate and study essential aspects of societies. The central advantage оГ precise modelling is that when results are obtained they are obtained objectively and repeatably: The disadvantage is that drawing any conclusions at all becomes a technically ...
IEEE Workshop on Distributed Intelligent Systems: Collective Intelligence and Its Applications (DIS'06)
Modelling a Typical Guerrilla War Jim Doran Department of Computer Science University of Essex do... more Modelling a Typical Guerrilla War Jim Doran Department of Computer Science University of Essex [email protected] ... Part of the motivation for these experiments has been to test foco theory as propounded by Guevara and Debray ([3], page 170-1) following Castro's success. ...
Questions in the Methodology of Artificial Societies
Tools and Techniques for Social Science Simulation, 2000
... Questions in the Methodology of Artificial Societies. Author: Jim Doran, Published in: · Proc... more ... Questions in the Methodology of Artificial Societies. Author: Jim Doran, Published in: · Proceeding. Tools and Techniques for Social Science Simulation. ... top of page ABSTRACT. An abstract is not available. top of page AUTHORS. Jim Doran No contact information provided yet. ...
Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, 1997
Abstract Can archaeologists help software engineers unravel what has been happening in an artific... more Abstract Can archaeologists help software engineers unravel what has been happening in an artificial society of intelligent agents? We discuss the methods that archaeologists regularly use and how they relate to the properties of an artificial society and the problems ...
... that merely act, at best, as a sounding board for a particular social science perspective. ..... more ... that merely act, at best, as a sounding board for a particular social science perspective. ... Does this suggest that agent-based modelling can never be of practical importance? ... that this move towards decentralised management is at root no more than an emotional and ideological ...
Review of Simulating Change: Archaeology into the Twenty-First Century (Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry)
Cover of book The contributors to this thought-provoking volume address two major questions conce... more Cover of book The contributors to this thought-provoking volume address two major questions concerning agent-based modelling in archaeology: is such modelling going to play a substantial role in archaeological studies in the future, and, if so, why has it not ...
Using computers to simulate naturally occurring societies is a rapidly growing area of research [... more Using computers to simulate naturally occurring societies is a rapidly growing area of research [1],[2]. Much of the ongoing work is targeted at non-human societies (often in the 'artificial life'tradition), but some is aiming to use AI and Distributed AI to gain insight into ...
Formal methods and archaeological theory: A perspective
World Archaeology, 1986
... In Mortality and Immortality: the Anthropology and Archaeology of Death (eds SC Humphries and... more ... In Mortality and Immortality: the Anthropology and Archaeology of Death (eds SC Humphries and H. King). New York: Academic Press. pp. ... Mortuary Variability: an Archaeological Investigation. ... Middle-range theory in archaeology: a critical review of origins and applications. ...
Algorithmic analysis of models is quite common in general, but is rarely attempted in the context... more Algorithmic analysis of models is quite common in general, but is rarely attempted in the context of agent-based social simulation. We explore the algorithmic analysis of simulation models that take the form of production systems as these are defined in computer science. Several implemented analysis algorithms for a particular type of production system are discussed, including algorithms for agent discovery and for model abstraction. Examples of the use of these algorithms are given and their potential briefly considered.
Abstract: Planned intervention to achieve stakeholder cooperation and coalition is essential for ... more Abstract: Planned intervention to achieve stakeholder cooperation and coalition is essential for successful environmental management. Agent-based modelling on a computer has the potential to build a practical theory of intervention in this and related contexts. Potentially ...
This report is the result of a panel discussion at the Second UK Workshop on Foundations of Multi... more This report is the result of a panel discussion at the Second UK Workshop on Foundations of Multi-Agent Systems (FOMAS'97). All members of the panel are authors, listed alphabetically.
Central to sustainable natural resource management is the achievement of cooperation and collecti... more Central to sustainable natural resource management is the achievement of cooperation and collective action amongst stakeholders with initially conflicting short and long-term goals. It is argued that automatically generated agent-based computer models may be used to explore the ways in which external intervention can bring about effective stakeholder cooperation in environmental resource management contexts. The potential advantages of the agent-based modelling approach in this context include objectivity, and the discovery of currently unrecognised intervention strategies of practical value. An experimental procedure is proposed, and, by reference to a detailed design for a class of agent-based models, the technical obstacles that must be surmounted before this potential can be realised are examined. They include combinatorial complexity, and difficulty in the interpretation of a model's behaviour in human social terms.
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