Multi-Agent-Based Simulation III [electronic resource] : 4th International Workshop, MABS 2003, Melbourne, Australia, July 14, 2003. Revised Papers / edited by David Hales, Bruce Edmonds, Emma Norling, Juliette Rouchier.

MABS Techniques for MAS -- Engineering Emergent Behaviour: A Vision -- Employment Decisions Supporting Organizations of Autonomous Agents -- Towards Verification and Validation in Multiagent-Based Systems and Simulations: Analyzing Different Learning Bargaining Agents -- Weak Interaction and Strong Interaction in Agent Based Simulations -- Economics, Exchange, and Influence in VirtualWorlds -- Using Qualitative Exchange Values to Improve the Modelling of Social Interactions -- Bilateral Tradings with and without Strategic Thinking -- Monetary Policy and Banks’ Loan Supply Rules to Harness Asset Bubbles and Crashes -- Social Change: Exploring Design Influence -- Social Prejudice: Cognitive Modelling and Simulation Findings -- MABS Techniques for RealWorld Modelling -- A Methodology for Eliciting and Modelling Stakeholders’ Representations with Agent Based Modelling -- Modelling a European Decision Making Process with Heterogeneous Public Opinion and Lobbying: The Case of the Authorization Procedure for Placing Genetically Modified Organisms on the Market -- Evaluation of Usability of Dial-a-Ride Systems by Social Simulation -- The Strategy Hypercube: Exploring Strategy Space Using Agent-Based Models -- Understanding and Classifying MABS -- A Classification of Paradigmatic Models for Agent-Based Social Simulation.