Microsimulation of household cycles -- Agent-Based Computational Modelling: An Introduction -- Socio-Economics -- Agent-Based Modelling - A Methodology for the Analysis of Qualitative Development Processes -- On the Analysis of Asymmetric Directed Communication Structures in Electronic Election Markets -- Population and Demography -- The Role of Assortative Mating on Population Growth in Contemporary Developed Societies -- An Agent-Based Simulation Model of Age-at-Marriage Norms -- The Strength of Social Interactions and Obesity among Women -- Ecology and Environment -- Agent-Based Models in Ecology: Patterns and Alternative Theories of Adaptive Behaviour -- Agent-Based Modelling of Self-Organisation Processes to Support Adaptive Forest Management -- Vampire Bats & The Micro-Macro Link -- General Aspects -- How Are Physical and Social Spaces Related? - Cognitive Agents as the Necessary "Glue" -- Agent Design for Agent-Based Modelling.

The present book describes the methodology to set up agent-based models and to study emerging patterns in complex adaptive systems resulting from multi-agent interaction. It offers the application of agent-based models in demography, social and economic sciences and environmental sciences. Examples include population dynamics, evolution of social norms, communication structures, patterns in eco-systems and socio-biology, natural resource management, spread of diseases and development processes. It presents and combines different approaches how to implement agent-based computational models and tools in an integrative manner that can be extended to other cases.