Designing adaptive artificial agents for an economic production and conflict model Hassani-M, Behrooz and Parris, Brett W. 2009, Designing adaptive artificial agents for an economic production and conflict model. In Korb, Kevin, Randall, Marcus and Hendtlass, Tim (ed), Artificial life : borrowing from biology, Springer, Berlin , Germany, pp.179-190. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Designing adaptive artificial agents for an economic production and conflict model Author(s) Hassani-M, Behrooz Parris, Brett W. Title of book Artificial life : borrowing from biology Editor(s) Korb, Kevin Randall, Marcus Hendtlass, Tim Publication date 2009 Series Lecture notes in computer science. Lecture notes in artificial intelligence; 5865 Chapter number 18 Total chapters 27 Start page 179 End page 190 Total pages 12 Publisher Springer Place of Publication Berlin , Germany Keyword(s) Production and Conflict Models Agent-based Modelling Adaptive Behavior Summary Production and conflict models have been used over the past 30 years to represent the effects of unproductive resource allocation in economics. Their major applications are in modelling the assignment of property rights, rentseeking and defense economics. This paper describes the process of designing an agent used in a production and conflict model. Using the capabilities of an agent-based approach to economic modelling, we have enriched a simple decision-maker of the kind used in classic general equilibrium economic models, to build an adaptive and interactive agent which uses its own attributes, its neighbors’ parameters and information from its environment to make resource allocation decisions. Our model presents emergent and adaptive behaviors than cannot be captured using classic production and conflict agents. Some possible extensions for future applications are also recommended. Notes This book comprises the refereed proceedings of the 4th Australian Conference on Artificial Life, ACAL 2009, held in Melbourne, Australia, in December 2009. ISBN 3642104266 9783642104268 Language eng Field of Research 160505 Economic Development Policy Socio Economic Objective 970114 Expanding Knowledge in Economics HERDC Research category B1.1 Book chapter Copyright notice ©2009, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30033928 Document type: Book Chapter Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of International and Political Studies   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 15 Apr 2011, 15:40:17 EST Tue, 02 Aug 2011, 12:07:12 EST Tue, 02 Aug 2011, 12:11:31 EST Tue, 02 Aug 2011, 12:13:10 EST Tue, 02 Aug 2011, 12:14:17 EST Mon, 06 Feb 2012, 11:06:20 EST Mon, 06 Feb 2012, 11:22:00 EST Thu, 20 Nov 2014, 07:57:31 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 187 Abstract Views, 1 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Fri, 15 Apr 2011, 15:40:17 EST