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      Pattern-Oriented Modeling of Agent-Based Complex Systems: Lessons from Ecology

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          Agent-based complex systems are dynamic networks of many interacting agents; examples include ecosystems, financial markets, and cities. The search for general principles underlying the internal organization of such systems often uses bottom-up simulation models such as cellular automata and agent-based models. No general framework for designing, testing, and analyzing bottom-up models has yet been established, but recent advances in ecological modeling have come together in a general strategy we call pattern-oriented modeling. This strategy provides a unifying framework for decoding the internal organization of agent-based complex systems and may lead toward unifying algorithmic theories of the relation between adaptive behavior and system complexity.

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                Journal
                Science
                Science
                American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
                0036-8075
                1095-9203
                November 11 2005
                November 11 2005
                : 310
                : 5750
                : 987-991
                Affiliations
                [1 ]UFZ Umweltforschungszentrum Leipzig-Halle, Department Ökologische Systemanalyse, PF 500 136, 04301 Leipzig, Germany.
                [2 ]Department of Applied Biology, Estación Biológica de Doñana, Spanish Council for Scientific Research CSIC, Ave. Maria Luisa s/n, E-41013 Seville, Spain.
                [3 ]Zentrum für Marine Tropenökologie, Fahrenheitstrasse 6, 28359 Bremen, Germany.
                [4 ]Institut für Biochemie und Biologie, Universität Potsdam, Maulbeerallee 2, 14469 Potsdam, Germany.
                [5 ]Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Centre for Limnology, Rijksstraatweg 6, 3631 AC Nieuwersluis, Netherlands.
                Article
                10.1126/science.1116681
                16284171
                811f7065-9ef3-4e22-a48f-e64f08b49f73
                © 2005
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