Varieties of agents in agentbased （在agentbased品种的特工）.pdf

Journal of Economic Dynamics Control ] (]]]]) ]]]–]]] Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Journal of Economic Dynamics Control journal homepage: /locate/jedc Varieties of agents in agent-based computational economics: A historical and an interdisciplinary perspective Shu-Heng Chen AI-ECON Research Center, Department of Economics, National Chengchi University, Taipei 116, Taiwan a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: In this paper, we trace four origins of agent-based computational economics (ACE), Received 21 January 2011 namely, the markets origin, the cellular-automata origin, the tournaments origin, and Accepted 31 August 2011 the experiments origin. Along with this trace, we examine how these origins have motivated different concepts and designs of agents in ACE, which starts from the early Keywords: work on simple programmed agents, randomly behaving agents, zero-intelligence Cellular automata agents, human-written programmed agents, autonomous agents, and empirically Autonomous agents calibrated agents, and extends to the newly developing cognitive agents, psychological Tournaments agents, and culturally sensitive agents. The review also shows that the intellectual ideas Genetic algorithms underlying these varieties of agents cross several disciplines, which may be considered Genetic programm