Agent-Based Modelling and Network Dynamics

Akira Namatame, Professor, Deparment of Computer Science, National Defence Academy of Japan,Shu-Heng Chen, Distinguished Professor, Department of Economics, National Chengchi University, Taiwan

Prof. Dr. Akira Namatame received his Ph. D from Stanford University, USA, in 1979. He joined the Department of Computer Science at Japan Defense Academy in 1988. He was a visiting Professor at George Mason University, USA, and Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia. His research interests include multi-agents, evolutionary computation, game theory, social simulation, and computational social sciences. He has published 10 books and more than 250 refereed journal or conference papers. He is the editor-in-chief of "the journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination". Details of Akira Namatame can be found at http://www.nda.ac.jp/~nama.


Prof. Dr Shu-Heng Chen Dr. holds a M.A. degree in mathematics and a Ph. D. in Economics from the University of California at Los Angeles, USA. He has more than 150 publications in international journals, edited volumes and conference proceedings. He has been invited to give keynote speeches and plenary talks on many international conferences. He also serves as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of New Mathematics and Natural Computation (World Scientific). Details of Shu-Heng Chen can be found at http://www.aiecon.org/.