IBA TAKASHI, CHUBACHI YOSHIHIDE, MATSUZAWA YOSHIAKI, KAIHO KEN, TAKEFUJI YOSHIYASU
44(14) 20-30, Nov 15, 2003
In this paper, we propose a framework of agent-based models for economies and societies. This framework allows us to describe and simulate the complex system where the rules of the behavior for each elements change dynamically through out the simulation. The proposed framework is based on a set of two models. One is for building the conceptual models and the other for executing the simulation. Two models together are able to process consistently from modeling to execution. One of characteristics in the proposed framework is that interactions between agents are clearly declared as the exchange of goods (with information). Also, a behavior is defined as a different object from each agents in the model to realize flexible design by using the object-composition technique. This paper not only provides a pattern of modeling the socio-economic system by using object-oriented methodology, but also is able to analyze the state of the system using simulation by providing the environment to build the model and execute the simulation.