Agent-based modeling/simulation is an emergent approach to the analysis of social and economic systems. This book includes selected papers presented at the Fifth International Workshop on Agent-Based Approaches in Economic and Social Complex Systems held in Tokyo in 2007.

Plenary Talk.- Genetic Programming and Agent-Based Computational Economics: From Autonomous Agents to Product Innovation.- Invited Talk.- Simulating the Emergence of Complex Cultural Beliefs.- Organization and Management.- Synchronization in Mobile Agents and Effects of Network Topology.- Evaluation of Mass User Support Strategies in Theme Park Problem.- Agent-based simulation to analyze business office activities using reinforcement learning.- Fundamentals of Agent-Based and Evolutionary Approaches.- A Model of Mental Model Formation in a Social Context.- A Thought on the Continuity Hypothesis and the Origin of Societal Evolution.- Modeling a small agent society based on social choice logic programming.- Production, Services and Urban Systems.- Modeling and Development of an Autonomous Pedestrian Agent — As a Simulation Tool for Crowd Analysis for Spatial Design.- Agent-Based Adaptive Production Scheduling — A Study on Cooperative-Competition in Federated Agent Architecture.- A Simulation Analysis of Shop-around Behavior in a Commercial District as an Intelligent Agent Approach -A Case Study of Osu District of Nagoya City-.- Interacting Advertising and Production Strategies — A Model Approach on Customers’ Communication Networks.- Agent-Based Approaches to Social Systems.- A Method to Translate Customers’ Actions in Store into the Answers of Questionnaire for Conjoint Analysis.- Agent-Based Simulation of Learning Social Norms in Traffic Signal Systems.- Discovery of Family Tradition with Inverse Simulation.- Analysis of Focal Information of Individuals: Gaming Approach to C2C Market.- Market and Economy I.- Social Network Characteristics and the Evolution of Investor Sentiment.- From the simplest price formation models to paradigm of agent-based computationalfinance: a first step.- On Emergence of Money in Self-organizing Doubly Structural Network Model.- Market and Economy II.- Scale-Free Networks Emerged in the Markets: Human Traders versus Zero-Intelligence Traders.- A Model of Market Structure Dynamics with Boundedly Rational Agents.- Agent-based Analysis of Lead User Innovation in Consumer Product Market.- Agent-Based Stochastic Model of Barter and Monetary Exchange.