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Simulating consumer decision-making is vital for designing and evaluating marketing strategies before costly real-world deployment. However, post-event analyses and rule-based agent-based models (ABMs) struggle to capture the complexity of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Man-Lin Chu , Lucian Terhorst , Kadin Reed , Tom Ni , Weiwei Chen , Rongyu Lin

Agent modeling is a critical component in developing effective policies within multi-agent systems, as it enables agents to form beliefs about the behaviors, intentions, and competencies of others. Many existing approaches assume access to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Conor Wallace , Umer Siddique , Yongcan Cao

In recent years, individual-based/agent-based modeling has been applied to study a wide range of applications, ranging from engineering problems to phenomena in sociology, economics and biology. Simulating such agent-based models over…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-30 Ping Liu , Giovanni Samaey , C. William Gear , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis

Agent-based models are a natural choice for modeling complex social systems. In such models simple stochastic interaction rules for a large population of individuals can lead to emergent dynamics on the macroscopic scale, for instance a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-08-02 Luzie Helfmann , Jobst Heitzig , Péter Koltai , Jürgen Kurths , Christof Schütte

Agent-based modeling approaches represent the state-of-art in modeling travel demand and transportation system dynamics and are valuable tools for transportation planning. However, established agent-based approaches in transportation rely…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Tianming Liu , Jirong Yang , Yafeng Yin

Most AI agents remain confined to an instrumental "command-execution" model, resulting in unequal, one-sided interactions. While recent works attempt to build relationships through hidden memory backends, these invisible processes often…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Zihong He , Shuqin Wang , Songchen Zhou , Qinghui Lin , Jialin Wang , Chen Liang , Hai-Ning Liang

PRAM puts agent-based models on a sound probabilistic footing as a basis for integrating agent-based and probabilistic models. It extends the themes of probabilistic relational models and lifted inference to incorporate dynamical models and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Paul Cohen

Multi-modal AI systems will likely become a ubiquitous presence in our everyday lives. A promising approach to making these systems more interactive is to embody them as agents within physical and virtual environments. At present, systems…

There has been a growing interest in enhancing rule-based agent-based models (ABMs) for social media platforms (i.e., X, Reddit) with more realistic large language model (LLM) agents, thereby allowing for a more nuanced study of complex…

The most fundamental social interactions among humans occur face to face. Their features have been extensively studied in recent years, owing to the availability of high-resolution data on individuals' proximity. Mathematical models based…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-06-10 Luca Gallo , Chiara Zappalà , Fariba Karimi , Federico Battiston

Designing adaptive mechanisms to align individual and collective interests remains a central challenge in artificial social intelligence. Existing methods often struggle with modeling heterogeneous agents possessing persistent latent traits…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Xiaoyuan Zhang , Yizhe Huang , Chengdong Ma , Zhixun Chen , Long Ma , Yali Du , Song-Chun Zhu , Yaodong Yang , Xue Feng

Economic inequality is one of the pivotal issues for most of economic and social policy makers across the world to insure the sustainable economic growth and justice. In the mainstream school of economics, namely neoclassical theories,…

Econometrics · Economics 2018-04-26 Hossein Sabzian , Alireza Aliahmadi , Adel Azar , Madjid Mirzaee

The behavioral dynamics of multi-agent systems have a rich and orderly structure, which can be leveraged to understand these systems, and to improve how artificial agents learn to operate in them. Here we introduce Relational Forward Models…

This study presents an innovative approach to urban mobility simulation by integrating a Large Language Model (LLM) with Agent-Based Modeling (ABM). Unlike traditional rule-based ABM, the proposed framework leverages LLM to enhance agent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Yu-Lun Song , Chung-En Tsern , Che-Cheng Wu , Yu-Ming Chang , Syuan-Bo Huang , Wei-Chu Chen , Michael Chia-Liang Lin , Yu-Ta Lin

The ability of modeling the other agents, such as understanding their intentions and skills, is essential to an agent's interactions with other agents. Conventional agent modeling relies on passive observation from demonstrations. In this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Tianmin Shu , Caiming Xiong , Ying Nian Wu , Song-Chun Zhu

Agent based modelling is a simulation method in which autonomous agents interact with their environment and one another, given a predefined set of rules. It is an integral method for modelling and simulating complex systems, such as…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-01-10 George Datseris , Ali R. Vahdati , Timothy C. DuBois

An agent-based model for firms' dynamics is developed. The model consists of firm agents with identical characteristic parameters and a bank agent. Dynamics of those agents is described by their balance sheets. Each firm tries to maximize…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2009-01-14 Hiroshi Iyetomi , Hideaki Aoyama , Yoshi Fujiwara , Yuichi Ikeda , Wataru Souma

Recent advances in agentic Large Language Models (LLMs) have positioned them as generalist planners capable of reasoning and acting across diverse tasks. However, existing agent benchmarks largely focus on symbolic or weakly grounded…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Weiyi Wang , Xinchi Chen , Jingjing Gong , Xuanjing Huang , Xipeng Qiu

The article is devoted to the issues of using discrete simulation models for modeling some basic technological processes. In the scientific work, models in the form of multi-agent systems have been investigated, which allow us to consider a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Sergey Petrovich Bobkov , Irina Aleksandrovna Astrakhantseva

We provide a comprehensive examination of agent-based approaches that codify the principles and linkages underlying multi-agent systems, simulations, and information systems. Based on two decades of study, this paper confirms a framework…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Virginia Padilla , Jacinto Dávila