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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Multi-Agent-based Simulation, MABS 2008, held in Estoril, Portugal, in May 2008. The 16 revised full papers presented have gone through two rounds of r

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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science

5269

Nuno David Jaime Simão Sichman (Eds.)

Multi-Agent-Based Simulation IX International Workshop, MABS 2008 Estoril, Portugal, May 12-13, 2008 Revised Selected Papers

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Series Editors Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI and University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Nuno David ISCTE - Lisbon University Institute Av. das Forças Armadas 1649-026 Lisboa, Portugal E-mail: [email protected] Jaime Simão Sichman University of São Paulo Computer Engineering Department Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, tv.3, 158 05508-970 São Paulo SP Brazil E-mail: [email protected]

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CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2, I.2.11, J.4, K.4 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13

0302-9743 3-642-01990-0 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-642-01990-6 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York

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Preface

The meeting of researchers from multi-agent systems engineering and the social/ economic/organizational sciences plays a vital role in the cross-fertilization of ideas, and is undoubtedly an important source of inspiration for the body of knowledge that is being produced in the multi-agent field. The MABS series continues to pursue its goal of bringing together researchers interested in multi-agent systems with those focused on modelling complex social systems, in such areas as economics, management, and organizational and social sciences in general. This volume is the ninth of its series. It is based on papers accepted for the 9th International Workshop on Multi-agent-Based Simulation (MABS 2008), co-located with the 7th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2008), which was held in Estoril, Portugal, May 12–16, 2008. All the papers presented at the workshop have been extended, revised and reviewed again in order to be part of this volume. The success of this field is reflected in the outstanding number of submissions that we received at that time. Forty-four submissions from 14 countries were received, from which we selected 16 for presentati