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Note publique d'information : This volume presents extended and revised versions of the papers presented at the
Third International Workshop on Multi-Agent Based Simulation (MABS 2002), a workshop
federated with the First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent
Systems (AAMAS 2002), which was held in Bologna, Italy, in July, 2002. This workshop
was the third in the MABS series. The earlier two were - ganized as workshops of the
two most recent ICMAS conferences (ICMAS 1998, Paris, France and ICMAS 2000, Boston,
USA). Revised versions of the papers presented at these workshops were published as
volumes 1534 and 1979 in the Lecture Notes in Arti?cial Intelligence series. One aim
of the workshop was to develop stronger links between those wo- ing in the social
sciences and those involved with multi-agent systems. We are pleased to note that
many important conferences in various disciplines such as geography, economics, ecology,
sociology, and physics have hosted workshops on MABS-related topics and that many
respected journals publish papers that - clude elements of MABS. But although MABS
is gradually acquiring legitimacy in many disciplinary ?elds, much remains to be done
to clarify the potential use of MABS in these disciplines. Researchers from these
disciplines have di?erent points of view on issues such as time-frame, space, geographical
scales, or- nizational levels, etc. Moreover, the interest in MABS goes beyond the
scienti?c community, as MABS models have been developed and used interactively with
other communities as well.