Agent-based modeling/simulation is an emergent approach to the analysis of social and economic systems. This book includes selected papers presented at the Eighth International Workshop on Agent-Based Approaches in Economic and Social Complex Systems held in Tokyo, Japan, in 2013.

Part1: Conflict, Human, and Culture (Ch1 Topos Modeling of Social Conflict: Theory and Methods.- Ch2 Emergence of Peace Resulting from TFT Strategy Observing a Limited Number of Agents.- Ch3 Exploring the origins of prejudice with agent-based modeling.- Ch4 Human Development Dynamics: Change Behavior in an Agent Based Model of Macro Social Systems and Individual Games.- Ch5 Globalization may cause cultural accumulation in the whole population). Part2: Economy, Management and Public Issues (Ch6 Trust, Growth and Inequality: An Agent-Based Model.- Ch7 An Agent-based Implementation of Service System Interactions based on the ISPAR model.- Ch3 Exploring optimal wage incentive system using ABS.- Ch8Does Stock Market Contribute to the Growth of Company? -An Agent-Based Simulation of Industrial Model in which Stock Markets and Goods Markets Exist.- Ch9 A Formal Test of Behavioral Heterogeneity: The Case of a Structural Stochastic Volatility Model.- Ch10 Agent-based Simulation of Citizens’ Channel Choice of Public Services Based on Social Learning.- Ch 11 Preliminary Study on a Method for Space Design Analysis Based on Human Behavior Semiosis Using a Multiagent Simulator.- Ch12 Simulation Analysis of Vaccination Subsidy with ABM Approach).

Agent-based modeling/simulation is an emergent approach to the analysis of social and economic systems. It provides a bottom-up experimental method to be applied to social sciences such as economics, management, sociology, and politics as well as some engineering fields dealing with social activities. This book includes selected papers presented at the Eighth International Workshop on Agent-Based Approaches in Economic and Social Complex Systems held in Tokyo, Japan, in 2013. At the workshop, 23 reviewed full papers were presented, and of those, 14 were selected to be included in this volume.

Collects the most up-to-date information on the development of agent-based methodology, modeling and simulation in interdisciplinary social science Is the post-conference publication of the currently most prominent conference in computational social science or social simulation Is the eighth volume of Springer’s Series on Agent-Based Approaches in Economic and Social Complex Systems, which forms a valuable collection on social simulation for libraries and research institutions