Re: [SwarmFest2004] Presentation proposal - Swarmfest 2004

[Rick Riolo]

Hi Riccardo,
OK, we have your submission, thanks!
 - r

Rick Riolo                           address@hidden
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On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Riccardo Boero wrote:

> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 17:06:50 +0200
> From: Riccardo Boero <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [SwarmFest2004] Presentation proposal - Swarmfest 2004
>
> Inferring Individual Behavior with GP: Agent-Based Models of Public
> Goods Provision.
>
> Abstract
>
> Agent Based Models are useful for the process of understanding dynamics
> and causal relations of complex social systems. That kind of modeling
> approach is based on the process of reducing real complexity to the
> model micro specification and of studying its outcomes via computer
> simulation. But to increase the scientific value of the research
> process, a deeper empirical foundation of the micro specification must
> be developed. In the paper, I report some results obtained searching for
> nano foundations of socio-economic ABMs, i.e. empirical foundations of
> the micro specification. In particular, an attempt to use data collected
> in classroom experiments is presented and a methodological procedure is
> evaluated. In fact, the paper focuses on an example based on some
> experiments about public goods provision, showing how some parts of the
> micro specification can be easily founded on reality (i.e. how the
> interaction and endowments structure can be made explicit as
> experimental ones) while individual behavior is problematic. In fact, a
> complicate procedure is needed to infer a behavioral strategy useful for
> modeling and scientific purposes. Thus, an inferring procedure using
> Genetic Programming is presented and, finally, some models are presented
> too with the aim of stressing how the proposed procedure helps building
> models to understand such kind of social and economic dilemmas.
>
> Riccardo Boero
>
> Dept. of Sociology
> University of Surrey
>
>
>
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