Epilogue: Agent-Based Transdisciplinarity

The study of human behavior crosses a large spectrum of scientific fields. Every social science tries to understand specific issues regarding how people choose, act, and interact. Although scientific specialization is many times required to attain a deep perception of the matters at hand, one can only aspire to truly grasp the intricacies of human behavior and human interaction through an integrated perspective. In this last chapter, we advocate that such integrated view is closely intertwined with the notion of transdisciplinarity. This notion underlies most of the analysis in the book and, particularly, it serves as the inspiration for the proposed agent-based model that was characterized and explored in the previous chapters. The agent ID model might be classified as a transdisciplinary agent-based model.