• Editorial Introduction.- Editorial Introduction: Messy Systems ? The Target for Multi Agent Based Simulation.- Model Design Issues.- The Use of Models - Making MABS More Informative.- Effects of Interaction Topology and Activation Regime in Several Multi-Agent Systems.- Simulating Emergence and Downward Causation in Small Groups.- Applications.- Modeling a Virtual Food Court Using DECAF.- How to Combine Reactivity and Anticipation: The Case of Conflicts Resolution in a Simulated Road Traffic.- Multi Agent Based Simulation: Beyond Social Simulation.- A Multi-Agent Based Simulation of Sand Piles in a Static Equilibrium.- Speeding Up CapBasED-AMS Activities through Multi-Agent Scheduling.- Simulating Social Relations and Processes.- The Micro-Macro Link in DAI and Sociology.- The Simmel Effect: Imitation and Avoidance in Social Hierarchies.- Cooperation without Memory or Space: Tags, Groups and the Prisoner’s Dilemma.- Sexual Attraction and Inter-sexual Dominance among Virtual Agents.- Multi-Agent Modelling and Renewable Resources Issues: The Relevance of Shared Representations for Interacting Agents.- Understanding Climate Policy Using Participatory Agent-Based Social Simulation.- Formal Approaches.- Enhancing Multi-Agent Based Simulation with Human-Like Decision Making Strategies.- Mapping the Envelope of Social Simulation Trajectories.- Agent-Based Social Simulation with Coalitions in Social Reasoning.

From the reviews: "This volume is based on papers accepted for the Second International Workshop on Multi-Agent-based Simulation ... . The editorial efforts, however, make it a reader ... which can successfully be used in a university seminar ... . Our students admitted that they had learnt a lot in reading, reporting and reviewing the selected papers ... . All other readers will certainly draw the same profit from reading this book. In the end, we can conclude our review with a recommendation to use this book in more university seminars ... ." (Michael Mohring and Klaus G. Tritzsch, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, April, 2002)