Different Paradigms of Software Agents Applied to Modeling and Simulation of Complex Social Systems
Alexander Renkl, Rolf Schwonke · eScholarship (California Digital Library) · 2005
The term agent, deriving from the Latin "agens", identifies someone (or something) who acts; the same word can also be used to define a mean through which some action is made or caused.The term is used in many different fields and disciplines, such as economics, physics, natural sciences, sociology and many others.In computer science, the word is used to define very heterogeneous entities and sometimes is even abused.The main purpose of this work is to investigate various kinds of software agents that could be applied to modeling and simulation of complex social systems.