Industry and labor dynamics : the agent-based computational economics approach : proceedings of the Wild@ace2003 workshop, Torino, Italy, 3-4 October 2003 / edited by Roberto Leombruni, Matteo Richiardi.

Includes bibliographical references.

Wild @ Ace project / B. Contini, R. Leombruni and M. Richiardi -- Economics and complexity / A. Kirman -- Simulations, theory and experiments : notes from an historical perspective / M. Novarese -- JAS : Java Agent-based Simulation library, and open framework for algorithm-intensive simulations / M. Sonnessa -- Matching, bargaining, and wage setting in an evolutionary model of labor market and output dynamics / G. Fagiolo, G. Dosi and R. Gabriele -- Endogenous matching functions : an agent-based computational approach / M. Neugart -- Search model of unemployment and firm dynamics / M. Richiardi -- Evolution of worker-employer networks and behaviors under alternative non-employment benefits : an agent based computational study / M. Pingle and L. Tesfatsion -- Early retirement from the labor market : policy experiments in the Italian case / P. Vagliasindi, M. Romanelli and C. Bianchi -- Business cycle fluctuations and firms' size distribution dynamics / D. Delli Gatti [and others] -- Effects of the interaction of heterogeneous rationalities on the innovation output of firms : a multi-agent-system approach / A. Kaufmann -- Modular pyramidal hierarchies and social norms : an agent-based model / A. Dal Forno and U. Merlone -- Growing Silicon Valley on a landscape : an agent-based approach to high-tech industrial clusters / J. Zhang -- Simulating knowledge dynamics in innovation networks / P. Ahrweiler, A. Pyka and N. Gilbert -- Generalised computational model of firms production and interactions : preliminary results on industrial dynamics / T. Ciarli and M. Valente -- Labor market, entrepreneurship and human capital in industrial districts : an agent-based prototype / R. Boero, M. Castellani and F. Squazzoni -- Role of small business based structures in promoting innovation, and creating employment, as compared to oligopolistic based structures / M. Koshyaran -- Finitary approach to clustering / D. Costantini, U. Garibaldi and P. Viarengo -- Open problems in using agent-based models in industrial and labor dynamics / N. Gilbert.

This book presents the contributions to the first Wild@Ace conference. The acronym stands for "Workshop on Industrial and Labor Dynamics -- The Agent-Based Computational Aproach", and it has been the first event ever focusing on the very promising use of the agent-based simulation approach for investigation of labor economics and industrial organization issues. Agent-based models are computer models in which a multitude of agents -- each embodied in a specific software code -- interact. These agents can represent individuals households, firms, institutions, etc. Moreover, "special" agents can be added to observe and monitor individual and collective behavior. One of the main purpose of writing an ACE model is to gain intuitions on the two-way feedback between the microstructure and the macrostructure of a phenomenon of interest. How is it that simple aggregate regularities may arise from individual disorder? Or that a nice structure at an individual level may lead to a complete absence of regularity in the aggregate? How is it that the complex interaction of very simple individuals may lead to surprisingly complicated aggregate dynamics? Or that sophisticated agents may be unable to organize themselves in any interesting way? The book includes contributions by some of the most distinguished researchers in the field, such as the economists Alan Kirman, Giovanni Dosi, Leigh Tesfatsion and Mauro Gallegati, and the sociologist Nigel Gilbert.

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