The challenge -- The ABMS paradigm -- All about agents -- The roots of ABMS -- The role of ABMS -- Discovering agents and agent behaviors -- Office ABMS -- How to do desktop ABMS -- How to do participatory ABMS -- How to do large-scale ABMS -- ABMS verification and validation -- A visual...

Michael North examines the common structural elements among the only seemingly heterogeneous areas of communication, trade, money, and banks. He demonstrates their specifically pan-European quality, as global influence was never more evident in any sector of the "German" economy than in these...

Both federal and state governments in the United States are being asked to enact laws that would make slaughtering of horses for human consumption illegal. In the past, the United States was one of the principal exporters of horsemeat to Europe. This paper examines the impacts of a proposed ban...