Key Features:Includes balanced discussions on theory and practiceProvides readers with various practical ways of modeling and reasoning with agent epistemic states for decision making, such as resolution-based logic programming paradigm, Bayesian belief networks, and modal resolution...

This book reconciles the existence of technical trading with the Efficient Market Hypothesis. By analyzing a well-known agent-based model, the Santa Fe Institute Artificial Stock Market (SFI-ASM), it finds that when selective forces are weak, financial evolution cannot guarantee that only the...

"This book provides a comprehensive review of the most recent advances in agent and Web service technologies. It provides an integrated view of the most recent contributions which support formation, integration, collaboration, and operation in virtual enterprise. Readers will gain insight from...

"This book delivers definitive research on the use of agent technologies to advance the practice of electronic business in today's organizations, targeting the needs of enterprises in open and dynamic business opportunities to incorporate skilled use of multiple independent information systems....

"This book presents a modern view of intelligent tutoring, focusing mainly on the conception of these systems according to a multi-agent approach and on the affective and cognitive modeling of the student in this kind of educational environment"--Provided by publisher.

Studies of economic systems must consider how to handle interdependent feedback interactions of micro behaviors, interaction patterns and macroscopic regularities. The Agent-Field framework is an approach for agent-based computational economics. In this framework, models of economic systems are...

In recent years, agent-based simulation has become a widely accepted tool when dealing with complexity in economics and other social sciences. The contributions presented in this book apply agent-based methods to derive results from complex models related to market mechanisms, evolution,...