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FRONT MATTER
| i |
THE WILD@ACE PROJECT
BRUNO CONTINI, ROBERTO LEOMBRUNI and MATTEO RICHIARDI | vii |
| Section 1 Methodology |
ECONOMICS AND COMPLEXITY
ALAN KIRMAN | 3 |
SIMULATIONS, THEORY AND EXPERIMENTS. NOTES FROM AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
MARCO NOVARESE | 22 |
JAS: JAVA AGENT-BASED SIMULATION LIBRARY, AN OPEN FRAMEWORK FOR ALGORITHM-INTENSIVE SIMULATIONS
MICHELE SONNESSA | 43 |
| Section 2 Microsimulation of Labor Dynamics |
MATCHING, BARGAINING, AND WAGE SETTING IN AN EVOLUTIONARY MODEL OF LABOR MARKET AND OUTPUT DYNAMICS
G. FAGIOLO, G. DOSI and R. GABRIELE | 59 |
ENDOGENOUS MATCHING FUNCTIONS: AN AGENT-BASED COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH
M. NEUGART | 90 |
A SEARCH MODEL OF UNEMPLOYMENT AND FIRM DYNAMICS
MATTEO RICHIARDI | 107 |
EVOLUTION OF WORKER-EMPLOYER NETWORKS AND BEHAVIORS UNDER ALTERNATIVE NON-EMPLOYMENT BENEFITS: AN AGENT-BASED COMPUTATIONAL STUDY
MARK PINGLE and LEIGH TESFATSION | 129 |
EARLY RETIREMENT FROM THE LABOUR MARKET: POLICY EXPERIMENTS IN THE ITALIAN CASE
PIETRO A. VAGLIASINDI, MARZIA ROMANELLI and CARLO BIANCHI | 164 |
| Section 3 Understanding Firm Behavior |
BUSINESS CYCLE FLUCTUATIONS AND FIRMS’ SIZE DISTRIBUTION DYNAMICS
DOMENICO DELLI GATTI, CORRADO DI GUILMI, EDOARDO GAFFEO, GIANFRANCO GIULIONI, MAURO GALLEGATI and ANTONIO PALESTRINI | 199 |
EFFECTS OF THE INTERACTION OF HETEROGENEOUS RATIONALITIES ON THE INNOVATION OUTPUT OF FIRMS — A MULTI-AGENT-SYSTEM APPROACH
ALEXANDER KAUFMANN | 222 |
MODULAR PYRAMIDAL HIERARCHIES AND SOCIAL NORMS. AN AGENT BASED MODEL
ARIANNA DAL FORNO and UGO MERLONE | 244 |
| Section 4 Industrial Clusters and Firm Interaction |
GROWING SILICON VALLEY ON A LANDSCAPE: AN AGENT-BASED APPROACH TO HIGH-TECH INDUSTRIAL CLUSTERS
JUNFU ZHANG | 259 |
SIMULATING KNOWLEDGE DYNAMICS IN INNOVATION NETWORKS (SKIN)
PETRA AHRWEILER, ANDREAS PYKA and NIGEL GILBERT | 284 |
A GENERALISED COMPUTATIONAL MODEL OF FIRMS PRODUCTION AND INTERACTIONS: PRELIMINARY RESULTS ON INDUSTRIAL DYNAMICS
TOMMASO CIARLI and MARCO VALENTE | 297 |
LABOR MARKET, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND HUMAN CAPITAL IN INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS. AN AGENT-BASED PROTOTYPE
R. BOERO, M. CASTELLANI and F. SQUAZZONI | 332 |
THE ROLE OF SMALL BUSINESS BASED STRUCTURES IN PROMOTING INNOVATION, AND CREATING EMPLOYMENT, AS COMPARED TO OLIGOPOLISTIC BASED STRUCTURES
MEGAN KHOSHYARAN | 350 |
| Section 5 Mathematical Tools |
A FINITARY APPROACH TO CLUSTERING
U. GARIBALDI, D. COSTANTINI and P. VIARENGO | 377 |
| Conclusions |
OPEN PROBLEMS IN USING AGENT-BASED MODELS IN INDUSTRIAL AND LABOUR DYNAMICS
NIGEL GILBERT | 401 |
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