Centre for Policy Modelling Discussion Papers

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CPM-94-01
Can you Improve Economic Forecasts? Some Lessons from Computability Theory - Scott Moss and Bruce Edmonds
CPM-94-02
Evaluating Competitive Strategies - Scott Moss, Huw Dixon and Steve Wallis
CPM-94-03
Modelling Learning as Modelling -Scott Moss and Bruce Edmonds
CPM-94-04
Efficient Forward Chaining for Declarative Rules in a Multi-Agent Modelling Language - Steve Wallis and Scott Moss
CPM-95-05
A Formal Preference-State Model with Qualitative Market Judgements - Scott Moss and Bruce Edmonds
CPM-95-06
Axelrod Meets Cournot: Oligopoly and the Evolutionary Metaphor, part 1 - Huw Dixon,Steve Wallis and Scott Moss
CPM-95-07
What is Complexity? - The philosophy of complexity per se with application to some examples in evolution. - Bruce Edmonds
CPM-96-08
Pragmatic Holism - Bruce Edmonds
CPM-96-09
Logic, Reasoning and A Programming Language for Simulating Economic and Business Processes with Artificially Intelligent Agents - Bruce Edmonds,Scott Mossand Steve Wallis
CPM-96-10
Modelling Bounded Rationality using Evolutionary Techniques - Bruce Edmonds and Scott Moss
CPM-96-11
Modeling R&D Strategy as a Network Search Problem - Scott Moss, Bruce Edmonds andHelen Gaylard
CPM-95-12
Modelling the Process of Market Emergence - Scott Moss and Olga Kuznetsova
CPM-96-13
Rulebase-Driven Non-Linear Analysis of Competative Structure - Michael Campbell, Scott Moss and Clive Simms
CPM-97-14
The Possible Irreducibility of Artificial Software Life - Bruce Edmonds
CPM-97-15
A Simple-Minded Network Model with Context-like Objects - Bruce Edmonds
CPM-97-16
SDML: A Multi-Agent Language for Organizational Modelling -Scott Moss, Helen Gaylard, Steve Wallis and Bruce Edmonds
CPM-97-17
Combining Evolutionary Computing Techniques to Find Credible Qualitative Descriptions of the Demand-Side of Markets - Bruce Edmonds, Scott Moss and Helen Gaylard
CPM-95-18
A Top-Down Approach to Lexical Acquisition and Segmentation - Helen Gaylard and P. Hancox
CPM-96-19
The Role of Incremental Learning in the Acquisition of Phrase Structure - Helen Gaylard
CPM-96-20
A Cognitive Approach to Modelling Structural Change - Helen Gaylard
CPM-97-21
Development, Re-Representation, and Epistemology in Language Acquisition: Commentary on the Precis of Beyond Modularity by Kariloff-Smith- Helen Gaylard
CPM-97-22
Autonomy, Consent, and Written Consent - Helen Gaylard
CPM-97-23
Complexity and Scientific Modelling - Bruce Edmonds
CPM-97-24
From Complexity to Agent Modelling and Back Again - some implications for economics - Bruce Edmonds
CPM-97-25
Validation and Verification of Computational Models with Multiple Agents - Scott Moss,Bruce Edmonds and Steve Wallis
CPM-97-26
Modelling Socially Intelligent Agents - Bruce Edmonds
CPM-97-27
The Possible Incommensurability of Utilities and the Learning of Goals- Bruce Edmonds
CPM-97-28
Artificially Intelligent Specification and Analysis of Context-Dependent Attribute Preferences - Bruce Edmonds, Scott Mossand Helen Gaylard
CPM-97-29
A Re-analysis of the Effects of Task Decomposition and Organizational Structure on Performance and Robustness - Helen Gaylard
CPM-97-30
Boundedly versus Procedurally Rational Expectations -Scott Moss
CPM-97-31
Gossip, Sexual Recombination and the El Farol Bar: modelling the emergence of heterogeneity - Bruce Edmonds
CPM-98-32
Meta-Genetic Programming: Co-evolving the Operators of Variation - Bruce Edmonds
CPM-98-33
Modelling Bounded Rationality In Agent-Based Simulations using the Evolution of Mental Models - Bruce Edmonds
CPM-98-34
Capturing Social Embeddedness: a Constructivist Approach -Bruce Edmonds
CPM-98-35
Social Simulation Models and Reality: Three Approaches - Scott Moss
CPM-98-36
Hierarchical Organization of Robots: A Social Simulation Study - Scott Moss and Kerstin Dautenhahn
CPM-98-37
On Modelling in Memetics - Bruce Edmonds


Papers from the workshop on Socially Situated Intelligence

CPM-98-38
Experiments on human-robot communication with Robota, an imitative learning and communication doll robot - Aude Billard,Kerstin Dautenhahn and Gillian Hayes
CPM-98-39
Social Intelligence as Norm Adaptation - Magnus Boman and Harko Verhagen
CPM-98-40
Toward teaching a robot `infant' using emotive communication acts- Cynthia Breazeal and Juan Velasquez
CPM-98-41
The Evolutionary Emergence of Socially Intelligent Agents - Alastair Channon and Robert Damper
CPM-98-42
The Contribution of Society to the Construction of Individual Intelligence - Bruce Edmonds and Kerstin Dautenhahn
CPM-98-43
Positioning the analysis: Memetics as a methodological tool to close the ranks between social and traditional history - Rogan Jacobson
CPM-98-44
The Social Dimension of Economics and Multiagent Systems-Adolfo López Paredes and Ricardo del Olmo Martínez
CPM-98-45
Modelling and Evolution of Social Trends in Virtual Environments - María-Isabel Sánchez-Segura, Ricardo Imbert, Angélica de Antonio and Javier Segovia

CPM-98-46
Social Embeddedness and Agent Development - Bruce Edmonds
CPM-98-47
Integrating Physical and Social Modelling: The Example of Climate Change - Scott Moss and Claudia Pahl-Worstl
CPM-98-48
Critical Incident Management: An Empirically Derived Computational Model - Scott Moss
CPM-98-49
Canonical Task Environments for Social Simulation - Scott Moss
CPM-99-50
A Proposal for the Establishment of Review Boards - a flexible approach to the selection of academic knowledge - Bruce Edmonds
CPM-99-51
The Cost of Rational Agency - Scott Moss
CPM-99-52
The Pragmatic Roots of Context - Bruce Edmonds
CPM-99-53
The Constructability of Artificial Intelligence (as defined by the Turing Test) - Bruce Edmonds
CPM-99-54
Towards a Descriptive Model of Agent Strategy Search - Bruce Edmonds
CPM-99-55
Syntactic Measures of Complexity (Doctoral Thesis) - Bruce Edmonds
CPM-99-56
Relevance, Realism and Rigour: A Third Way for Social and Economic Research - Scott Moss
CPM-00-57
Towards Implementing Free Will - Bruce Edmonds
CPM-00-58
Developing Agents Who Can Relate To Us - putting agents in ourloop via situated self-creation - Bruce Edmonds


Papers from the symposium on Starting from Society

CPM-00-59
Intelligent Social Learning - Rosario Conte
CPM-00-60
Reverse Engineering of Societies - A Biological Perspective - Kerstin Dautenhahn
CPM-00-61
The Archeology of Artificial Societies - Jim Doran
CPM-00-62
Recognition of investment opportunities and generation of investment cycles - Guido Fioretti
CPM-00-63
A New Look into Garbage Cans - Petri Nets and Organisational Choice- Sven Heitsch, Daniela Hinck & Marcel Martens
CPM-00-64
Having a Sense of Ourselves: Technology and Personal Identity - Leslie Henrickson
CPM-00-65
Modelling Agents using the Hotel Analogy: Sanitised for your Protection? - Lindsay Marshall & Savas Parastatidis
CPM-00-66
The Making of Meaning in Societies:  Semiotic & Information-Theoretic Background to the Evolution of Communication -Christopher Nehaniv
CPM-00-67
Imitation and Reinformcement Learning with Heterogeneous Actions - Bob Price & Craig Boutilier
CPM-00-68
Socially Competent Business Agents with Attitude - Using Habitus-Field Theory to Design Agents with Social Competence - Michael Schillo, Steve Allen, Klaus Fischer & Christof Klein
CPM-00-69
Introducing Emotions into the Computational Study of Social Norms - Alexander Staller & Paolo Petta
CPM-00-70
The Society of Mind Requires an Economy of Mind - Ian Wright

 
CPM-00-71
The Power Law and Critical Density in Large Multi Agent Systems - Scott Moss,Bruce Edmonds and Steve Wallis
CPM-00-72
Mapping the Envelope of Social Simulation Trajectories - Oswaldo Terán, Bruce Edmonds and Steve Wallis
CPM-00-73
Determining the Envelope of Emergent Agent Behaviour via Architectural Transformation - Oswaldo Terán, Bruce Edmonds and Steve Wallis
CPM-00-74
The Use of Models - making MABS actually work - Bruce Edmonds
CPM-00-75
The Purpose and Place of Formal Systems in the Development of Science - Bruce Edmonds
CPM-00-76
Demonstrating the Role of Stakeholder Participation: An Agent Based Social Simulation Model of Water Demand Policy and Response - Scott Moss, Thomas E. Downing and Juliette Rouchier
CPM-01-77
What if all truth is context dependent? - Bruce Edmonds
CPM-01-78
Learning Appropriate Contexts - Bruce Edmonds
CPM-01-79
Competition in Intermediated Markets: Statistical signatures and critical densities - Scott Moss
CPM-01-80
Game Theory: Limitations and an Alternative - Scott Moss
CPM-01-81
The Importance of Representing Cognitive Processes in Multi-Agent Models - Bruce Edmonds and Scott Moss
CPM-01-82
Against Prior Theorising - Bruce Edmonds
CPM-01-83
Policy analysis from First Principles - Scott Moss
CPM-01-84
Intuition and Observation in the Design of  Multi Agent Systems - Scott Moss
CPM-01-85
Learning and Exploiting Context in Agents - Bruce Edmonds
CPM-01-86
Emergent Tendencies in Multi-Agent-based Simulations: using Constraint-based Methods to Effect Practical Proofs over Finite Subsets of Simulation Outcomes (Doctoral Thesis) - Oswaldo Terán
CPM-02-87
Surviving on a Sand-Pile: an investigation as to the type of behaviour that evolves in the presence of crises - Bruce Edmonds
CPM-02-88
Cooperation and Specialisation without Kin Selection - David Hales
CPM-02-89
Smart Agents Don’t Need Kin - Evolving Specialisation and Cooperation with Tags - David Hales
CPM-02-90
Wise-Up! - Smart Tag Pairing Evolves and Persists- David Hales
CPM-02-91
Towards an Ideal Social Simulation Language - Bruce Edmonds and Steve Wallis
CPM-02-92
Policy Modelling with ABSS: The Case of Water Demand Management - Olivier Barthelemy, Scott Moss,Thomas Downing and Juliette Rouchier
CPM-02-93
Modelling Software Organisations - David Hales and Chris Douce
CPM-02-94
Exploring the Value of Prediction in an Artificial Stock Market - Bruce Edmonds
CPM-02-95
The Social Embedding of Intelligence - Towards producing a machine that could pass the Turing Test - Bruce Edmonds
CPM-02-96
Understanding Our Creations: Using Machine Learning to Understand Machine models - David Hales
CPM-02-97
Integrating Domain Expertise With Aggregate Data Using Evolutionary Computation - Bruce Edmonds and Scott Moss
CPM-02-98
Computational Complexity of a Constraint Model-based Proof of the Envelope of Tendencies in a MAS-based Simulation Model - Oswaldo Terán and Bruce Edmonds
CPM-02-99
Simplicity is Not Truth-Indicative - Bruce Edmonds
CPM-02-100
Universality, simulation and Ultimate Truth - V. Lewscogski,Bruce Edmonds and David Hales
CPM-02-101
Group Reputation Supports Beneficent Norms: A Case of “them” and “us” - David Hales
CPM-02-102 
How Formal Logic Can Fail to be Useful for Modelling or Designing MAS - Bruce Edmonds
CPM-02-103 
Domestic Water Demand and Social Influence – an agent-based modelling approach  - Bruce Edmonds, Olivier Barthelemy, and Scott Moss
CPM-02-104
Evolving Social Rationality for MAS using “Tags” - David Hales and Bruce Edmonds
CPM-03-105
Sociology and Simulation: Statistical and Qualitative Cross-Validation  - Bruce Edmonds and Scott Moss
CPM-03-106
Computational Simulation as Theoretical Experiment - Bruce Edmonds and David Hales
CPM-03-107
Climate Change and the Demand for Water - Downing, T.E, Butterfield, R.E., Edmonds, B., Knox, J.W., Moss, S., Piper, B.S. and Weatherhead, E.K. (and the CCDeW project team)  [Links to the SEI report]
CPM-03-108
Evolutionary Units and Adaptive Intelligence: Why a brain can not be produced by internal evolutionary processes (but could be composed of such) - Bruce Edmonds
CPM-03-109
Neg-o-net- a negotiation simulation test-bed - David Hales


Papers from the Model to Model workshop

CPM-03-110
Comparative analysis of agent-based social simulations: GeoSim and FEARLUS models - Claudio Cioffi-Revilla and Nicholas M. Gotts
CPM-03-111
Simulations of Group Dynamics with Different Models - Jürgen Klüver and Christina Stoica
CPM-03-112
Individual-based model to enrich an aggregate model - Raphaël Duboz, Frédéric Amblard, Eric Ramat, Guillaume Deffuant, Philippe Preux
CPM-03-113
Comparing individual-based model of behaviour diffusion with its mean field aggregated approximation - Margaret Edwards, Sylvie Huet, François Goreaud, Guillaume Deffuant
CPM-03-114
Re-implementing John Duffy’s model of speculative learning agents in a small scale society: Problems, interest and issues - Juliette Rouchier
CPM-03-115
Replication, Replication and Replication - Some Hard Lessons from Model Alignment - Bruce Edmonds and David Hales
CPM-03-116
Stochastic Collusion and the Power Law of Learning: A General Reinforcement Learning Model of Cooperation - Andreas Flache and Michael Macy

CPM-03-117
Can Tags Build Working Systems? - From MABS to ESOA - David Hales and Bruce Edmonds 
CPM-03-118
Simulation and Complexity - how they can relate - Bruce Edmonds
CPM-03-119
The Design And Use Of Integrated And Agent-Based Models For Freshwater Resource Management - Report Of Workpackage 3 Of The Firma Project - Bruce Edmonds and  other members of the FIRMA Project
CPM-03-120
When and why does haggling occur? - Some lessons from a qualitative but computational simulation of negotiation - Bruce Edmonds
CPM-03-121
The impact of the model structure in social simulations - Olivier Barthélémy
CPM-03-122
How To Be Loyal, Rich And Have Fun Too: The Fun Is Yet To Come - Juliette Rouchier and David Hales
CPM-03-123
Agent-Based Modelling Incorporating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods: A Case Study Investigating the Impact of E-commerce upon the Value Chain - Richard Taylor
CPM-03-124
Implementing Free Will - Bruce Edmonds
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