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Agent-Based Modeling in Teaching and
Research
The ready availability of powerful personal
computers has added great impetus to the use of simulation
experiments in exploring complex phenomena in many fields.
Similar to the way that experimental economics has lent new
dimensions to a field that had been constrained by classical
theories of equilibrium, agent-based experimental programs
allow for the investigation of complex interactions and
evolutionary dynamics by a wider group of interested parties
from diverse fields and walks of life. This talk will review
some recent examples from pedagogical, policy, and research
points of view. The subjects will include issues as diverse
as the threat of a pandemic flu, the collapse of
civilizations, evolutionary game theory, and everybody’s
favorite (?) topic this year, politics.
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