You might want to check out:
"Why Agents? On the Varied Motivations for Agent Computing in the
Social Sciences," working paper by Robert Axtell, Center on Social and
Economic Dynamics (November 2000)
http://www.brookings.edu/es/dynamics/papers/agents/agents.htm
Thomas Baumgartner
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Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ)
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