Publications (1) - Methodology, Epistemology, Ontology, Emergence for Agent Based Models
My recent research focuses on model engineering , epistemology (what can we know?), methodology (How to know? ) and the ontology (what exists?) of (interacting) Agent Based Models (ABM) , as well as the computer simulations of these class of models by the way of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), in particular the properties of resultant complex artificial systems.
- With Frédéric Amblard, we published in French in 2006, and in english in 2007, an introductory book on Modeling and Multi-Agent Simulation, applied to the Human & Social Sciences. More recently, I coordinated a research book on ontologies for ABMs in Human and Social Sciences. In these fields, I collaborated with the philosophers Pierre Livet and Franck Varenne, with the GEMASS sociologists Nathalie Bulle and Michel Dubois, and with the geographer Lena Sanders.
- Sanders, L., Libourel T., Livet P. & Phan D. (2021) "Ontological points of view on the transitions of settlement systems" Chapter 16 in : Settling the World : From Prehistory to the Metropolis Era [on line]. Tours : Presses universitaires François-Rabelais, 2021. Available on the Internet : http://books.openedition.org/pufr/20035. ISBN : 9782869068551.
-version française : "Points de vue ontologiques sur les transitions des systèmes de peuplement" in Lena Sanders (dir.) Peupler la terre : De la préhistoire à l’ère des métropoles [en ligne]. Tours : Presses universitaires François-Rabelais, 2017, ISBN : 9782869066779 - DOI : 10.4000/books.pufr.10656> - Phan D. (2019) « A propos du sens des modèles à base d'agent avec interactions complexes en économie », Revue de philosophie économique, 20(2) pp. 181-220. halshs-03915798
- Bulle N., Phan D. (2017) "Can Analytical Sociology Do Without Methodological Individualism?" Philosophy of the Social Sciences: Volume 47 Issue 6, 2017 ; pp. 379–409. DOI: 10.1177/0048393117713982 - halshs-03916068
- Phan D. et Varenne F. (2017) "Modèles et simulations à base d'agents dans les sciences écomiques et sociales: de l'exploration conceptuelle à une variété de manières d'expérimenter", in G. Campagnolo et J-S Garbi (dir.) Philosophie économique un état des lieux, Editions Materiologiques ISBN 978-2-37361-057-4 p.347-38. (revised French Version of JASSS 2010 : http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/13/1/5.html translated by G. Campagnolo) - halshs-03916961 (contribution au projet COSMAGEMS : ANR-06-CORP-0031)
- Phan D., (2014) "La modélisation à base d'agents et la simulation par systèmes multi-agents de sociétés d'agents intentionnels" ; in: Modéliser & simuler, tome 2 Epistémologies et pratiques de la modélisation et de la simulation, dirigé par Franck Varenne, Marc Silberstein, Sébastien Dutreuil, Philippe Huneman,Editions materiologiques Novembre 2014 pp 193-244 ISBN : 978-2-919694-72-3. halshs-03916456
- Livet P. Phan D., Sanders L. (2014) «
Diversité et complémentarité des modèles multi-agents en sciences sociales », Revue française de sociologie, 55-4, pp. 689-729.
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Version anglaise : "Diversity and Complementarity of Agent-Based Models in the Social Sciences", Revue française de sociologie, (english version) 55-4, 2014, p. 689-729. - Phan D. (2010) "Pourquoi un cadre ontologique pour la modélisation multi-agents en Sciences Humaines et Sociales ?" Nouvelles Perspectives en Sciences Sociales, Vol.5 (2), mai, p. 101-133 - DOI 10.7202/044079ar - halshs-03916644 - (contribution au projet COSMAGEMS : ANR-06-CORP-0031)
- Livet P., Müller J.P., Phan D. Sanders L. (2010)
"Ontology, a mediator for Agent-Based Modeling in Social Science";,
The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Vol 13 issue1, 2010 :
http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/13/1/3.html - halshs-03367089
(contribution au projet COSMAGEMS : ANR-06-CORP-0031) - Phan D., Varenne F. (2010) "Agent-Based Models and Simulations in Economics and Social Sciences: from conceptual exploration to distinct ways of experimenting", The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Vol 13 issue1, 2010: http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/13/1/5.html - hal-00554700 - (contribution au projet COSMAGEMS : ANR-06-CORP-0031)
- Livet P., Phan D. Sanders S. (2008) "Why do we need ontology for Agent-Based Models" in Schredelseker, K., Hauser, F. Ed., Complexity and Artificial Markets, Series: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems Num 614 Springer, Berlin pp. 133-146 ISBN 9783540705567. (preprint in pdf) - halshs-00588091 - (contribution au projet COSMAGEMS : ANR-06-CORP-0031)
- Phan D., Schmid A-F., Varenne F. (2007) "Epistemology in a nutshell: Theory, model, simulation and Experiment" in Amblard, Phan. eds Agent Based Modelling and Simulations in the Human and Social Siences, Oxford, The Bardwell Press, p. 357-392< halshs-04004535
- Dubois M. Phan D. (2007) "Philosophy of Social Science in a nutshell: from discourse to model and experiment", in Phan, Amblard, Eds Agent Based Modelling and Simulations in the Human and Social Siences, Oxford, The Bardwell Press, p 393-431. halshs-04004485
- In the sub-domain of the methodology of emergence and emerging phenomena, I collaborated with Jean Louis Dessalles, a computer scientist specialized in cognitive science, and with computer scientists Jean Pierre Müller and Jacques Ferber, pioneers in the Multi Agent Systems.
- Dessalles J.L., Ferber J., Phan D. (2007) " Emergence in Agent based Computational Social Science: conceptual, formal and diagrammatic analysis " Chapter 9 in Yang A, Shan Y., (Eds). Intelligent Complex Adaptive Systems, Idea Group Inc, pub., p. 255-299. ISBN: 9781599047171 hal: lirmm-00344351
- Dessalles J.L., Müller J.P., Phan D. (2007) "Emergence in multi-agent systems: conceptual and methodological issues" in Phan, Amblard, Eds Agent Based Modelling and Simulations in the Human and Social Siences, Oxford, The Bardwell Press, p. 327-356. ISBN: 9781905622016 - halshs-04035648
- Dessalles J.L., Phan D. (2005) Emergence in multi-agent systems: cognitive hierarchy, detection, and complexity reduction part 1: methodological issues, AE2005 : A Symposium in Agent-based Computational Methods in Finance, Game Theory and their applications, Lille, September 15-16 : Mathieu, Beaufils, Brandouy (eds.), Agent-Based Methods in Finance, Game Theory and their Applications, Series: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, Vol. 564 Springer p. 147-161, ISBN: 3-540-28578-4 - halshs-0007859