solutions of differential equations, Multi Agent Systems appear as a
more intuitive and rewarding approach, particularly in the initial
exploration phase of complex phenomena.
The applications presented here provided a description of the
model’s dynamic response to various combinations of endogenous
and exogenous factors, useful in the development of new ideas and
mechanisms. In some cases, however, whenever the MAS showed
able to faithfully reproduce the observed data trends, its aim
exceeded the purely descriptive dimension and a quantitative
answer to some specific mechanistic questions could be proposed
and empirically tested.
Finally, it is fair to stress that, due to the prevailing interest of
the author, a major emphasis has been given to only a few among
the many characteristic features of MAS, namely: 1) the straightfor-
ward account of the environmental force-fields influence on the
agents behavior, and 2) the synchronous and/or correlated activa-
tion exerted by agents upon each other.
Dealing with a much wider range of phenomena the euristic
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