Agent-Based Models of Industrial Clusters and Districts In Albert Tavidze (ed.) Progress in Economics Research, Vol. 9, Chapter VIII, pp. 130-139. New York, Nova Science Publishers 2006.
Abstract
Agent-based models, an instance of the wider class of connectionist models, allow bottom-up simulations of organizations constituted by a large number of interacting parts. Thus, geographical clusters of competing or complementary firms constitute an obvious field of application. This contribution explains what agent-based models are, reviews applications in the field of industrial clusters and focuses on a simulator of infra- and inter-firm communications.