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Marilda Sotomayor, David Pérez-Castrillo, Filippo Castiglione (Eds.)

Complex Social and

Behavioral Systems
Game Theory and Agent-Based Models

Series: Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science Series

Covers with rigor old and the new developments

Considers cooperative and non-cooperative approaches
Features numerous examples from application domains ranging from particle
physics and biology to multi-agent games
This volume in the Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science, Second Edition, combines
the main features of Game Theory, covering most of the fundamental theoretical aspects under
the cooperative and non-cooperative approaches, with the procedures of Agent-Based Modeling
1st ed. 2020, XXIV, 939 p. 158 illus., 46
forstudying complex systems composed of a large number of interacting entities with many
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degrees of freedom. In Game Theory, the cooperative approach focuses on the possible
outcomes of the decision-makers’ interaction by abstracting from the "rational" actions or
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decisions that may lead to these outcomes. The non-cooperative approach focuses on the
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actions that the decision-makers can take. As John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern
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argued in their path-breaking book of 1944 entitled Theory of Games and Economic Behavior,
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most economic questions should be analyzed as games.The models of game theory are
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abstract representations of a number of real-life situations and have applications to economics,
E-reference work political science, computer science, evolutionary biology, social psychology, and law among
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behavioral rules, and then to simulate them in a computer to mimic the real phenomena. Given
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the relative immaturity of this modeling paradigm, and the broad spectrum of disciplines in
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which it is applied, a clear cut and widely accepted definition of high level concepts of agents,
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environment, interactions and so on, is still lacking. This volume explores the state-of-the-art in
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the development of a real ABM ontology to address the epistemological issues related to this
emerging paradigm for modeling complex systems.

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