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This self-contained text develops a Markov chain approach that makes the rigorous analysis of a class of microscopic models that specify the dynamics of complex systems at the individual level possible. It presents a general framework of aggregation in agent-based and related computational models, one which makes use of lumpability and information theory in order to link the micro and macro levels of observation. The starting point is a microscopic Markov chain description of the dynamical process in complete correspondence with the dynamical behavior of the agent-based model (ABM), which is obtained by considering the set of all possible agent configurations as the state space of a huge Markov chain. An explicit formal representation of a resulting "micro-chain" including microscopic transition rates is derived for a class of models by using the random mapping representation of a Markov process. The type of probability distribution used to implement the stochastic part of the model, which defines the updating rule and governs the dynamics at a Markovian level, plays a crucial part in the analysis of "voter-like" models used in population genetics, evolutionary game theory and social dynamics. The book demonstrates that the problem of aggregation in ABMs - and the lumpability conditions in particular - can be embedded into a more general framework that employs information theory in order to identify different levels and relevant scales in complex dynamical systems

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Book category Books in English Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects Research & information: general Information theory

• Full title: Markov Chain Aggregation for Agent-Based Models
• Author: SVEN BANISCH
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 195
• EAN: 9783319796918
• ISBN: 9783319796918
• ID: 19308592
• Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
• Weight: 454 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 155 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. March 2018

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