MANAGING BUSINESS COMPLEXITY
Discovering Strategic Solutions with
Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation

Michael J. North and Charles M. Macal，牛津大学出版社

主要内容：
This book is designed to do two things: (1) to teach
you how to think about agents, and (2) to teach you
how to do something with agents by developing agent-
based models and simulations. In doing so, this book
provides you with a vocabulary for agent-based
modeling and simulation that draws from a number of
fields that people typically do not connect.
We believe that in the future virtually all computer
simulations will be in the form of agent-based simula-
tions. Why is this so? For simulations it makes sense
because of the natural way that agent models can rep-
resent business issues and the close similarity of agent
modeling to the predominant computational para-
digm of object-oriented programming. In fact, we
believe that in the future many optimization models
will be agent-based as well, due to the flexibility of the
algorithms applied in agent-based optimization and
their applicability to solving real-time optimization
problems.


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