The present paper discusses implications for Agent-based Computational Economics (ACE) of a formal definition of emergence introduced by Dessalles, Phan in part I of this work. This exemplification is based on an extension of the model of emergence of classes by Axtell et al. The present paper...

This paper provides a formal definition of emergence, operative in multi-agent framework and which make sense from both a cognitive and an economics point of view. The first part discuses the ontological and epistemic dimension of emergence and provides a complementary set of definitions....