Artificial Economics and Self Organization ― Agent-based Approaches to Economics and Social Systems

This book offers an approach for modeling and investigating economic and social systems using of agent-based simulations and other computational techniques, in order to analyze systems-level outcomes as results from the agents’ behavior at the micro-level.

Stephan Leitner is Assistant Professor at the Department for Controlling and Strategic Management at the Alpen-Adria-Universitat Klagenfurt. Among others, his research interests include information quality, agency theory and the robustness of agency models, multi objective decision-making, and sustainability. The application of agent-based simulation as a research methodology to questions of management science characterizes an important part of his research. Friederike Wall is Full Professor and Head of the Department for Controlling and Strategic Management at the Alpen-Adria-Universitat Klagenfurt. Her research interests cover subjects like agent-based models in managerial accounting, quality of information in management accounting and control, managerial decision-behavior in case of noisy information systems. In her research she primarily uses agent-based simulation techniques.