Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science
Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science
Forecasting market demand for new telecommunications services: an introduction
Telematics and Informatics
The Gaia Methodology for Agent-Oriented Analysis and Design
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Validating Simulation Models: A General Framework and Four Applied Examples
Computational Economics
Technology diffusion: analysing the diffusion of agent technologies
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Dynamic Epistemic Logic
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In this paper I discuss some of the purposes and functions of building models, particularly agent-based models, and present a comprehensive list of these purposes and functions. Careful thought and attention is needed when modeling domains containing intelligent entities, which is usually the case for agent modeling. Reflection on the challenges involved in such domains leads me to propose the construction of meta-models, which are models of the relationship between an intended model of the domain and the entities in the domain, when the entities may have access to the intended model or its outputs. Agent-based computing approaches provide disciplined means of specifying, designing, developing and evaluating such meta-models.