Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird rationales Herdenverhalten anhand der Informationskaskadenmodelle sowie der Reputationsmodelle (Prinzipal-Agent-Kontext bei Existenz relativer Leistungsbewertung) analysiert. Im Bereich der Theorie wird die Frage beantwortet, welche Annahmen unverzichtbar sind für...

Multi-Agent Simulation (MAS) models are intended to capture emergent properties of complex systems that are not amenable to equilibrium analysis. They are beginning to see some use for analysing agricultural systems. The paper reports on work in progress to create a MAS for specific sectors in...

Intermodal freight transportation is defined as a system that carries freight from origin to destination by using two or more transportation modes. In this system, hubs are one of the key elements that function as transferring points of freight between different modes. The location of hubs is...

Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published in Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, published by and copyright University of Surrey, Department of Sociology.

Over the past two decades, financial market crises with similar features have occurred in different regions of the world. Unstable cross-market linkages during a crisis are referred to as financial contagion. We simulate crisis transmission in the context of a model of market participants...