The agent-based approach views an organization as a collection of agents, interacting with one another in their pursuit of assigned tasks. The performance of an organization in this framework is determined by the formal and informal structures of interactions among agents, which define the lines...

This chapter discusses the potential of the agent-based computational economics approach for the analysis of processes of innovation and technological change. It is argued that, on the one hand, several genuine properties of innovation processes make the possibilities offered by agent-based...

This chapter surveys research on agent-based models used in finance. It will concentrate on models where the use of computational tools is critical for the process of crafting models which give insights into the importance and dynamics of investor heterogeneity in many financial settings.

This chapter surveys work on dynamic heterogeneous agent models (HAMs) in economics and finance. Emphasis is given to simple models that, at least to some extent, are tractable by analytic methods in combination with computational tools. Most of these models are behavioral models with boundedly...

Various approaches used in Agent-based Computational Economics (ACE) to model endogenously determined interactions between agents are discussed. This concerns models in which agents not only (learn how to) play some (market or other) game, but also (learn to) decide with whom to do that (or not).

Economies are complicated systems encompassing micro behaviors, interaction patterns, and global regularities. Whether partial or general in scope, studies of economic systems must consider how to handle difficult real-world aspects such as asymmetric information, imperfect competition,...

Steuerungsansätze für komplexe Produktionssysteme -- Verteilte hierarchische Produktionssteuerung -- Verfahren zur autonomen und kooperativen Steuerung -- Koordination in hierarchischen Steuerungssystemen -- Systemarchitektur zur Produktionssteuerung -- Leistungsbewertung von...

Information als Wirtschaftsgut -- Vermarktung von Informationsgütern -- Spieltheoretische Verhandlungsmodelle -- Automatisierte Verhandlungen zwischen Softwareagenten -- Automatisierte Verhandlungen: eine Simulation -- Zusammenfassung und Ausblick.