This book examines the problem of maintenance planning and scheduling in industrial production systems. It presents two practically relevant, deterministic mathematical models: the capacitated planned maintenance problem (CPMP) and the weighted uncapacitated planned maintenance problem (WUPMP)....

This volume presents recent advances in the dynamic field of Artificial Economics and its various applications. Artificial Economics provides a structured approach to model and investigate economic and social systems. In particular, this approach is based on the use of agent-based simulations...

Does Collaboration Pay?- Why Do Firms Exist?- The "Win-Continue, Lose-Reverse" Rule in Cournot Oligopolies -- Organizational Change for Its Own Sake?- Best Practices in Programming Agent-Based Models in Economics and Finance -- Building Artificial Economies -- Spontaneous Segregation of Agents...

Artificial economics is a computational approach that aims to explain economic systems by modeling them as societies of intelligent software agents. The individual agents make autonomous decisions, but their actual behaviors are constrained by available resources, other individuals' behaviors,...

Markets and Trading -- Agent’s Minimal Intelligence Calibration for Realistic Market Dynamics -- Trading on Marginal Information -- Stylized Facts Study through a Multi-Agent Based Simulation of an Artificial Stock Market -- Auctions -- A Variable Bid Increment Algorithm for Reverse English...