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Computer simulations offer a robust toolset for exploring complex systems across various disciplines. A particularly impactful approach within this realm is Agent-Based Modeling (ABM), which harnesses the interactions of individual agents…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Zengqing Wu , Run Peng , Xu Han , Shuyuan Zheng , Yixin Zhang , Chuan Xiao

We propose the use of Agent Based Models (ABMs) inside a reinforcement learning framework in order to better understand the relationship between automated decision making tools, fairness-inspired statistical constraints, and the social…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Efrén Cruz Cortés , Debashis Ghosh

Agent-based Models (ABMs) are valuable tools for policy analysis. ABMs help analysts explore the emergent consequences of policy interventions in multi-agent decision-making settings. But the validity of inferences drawn from ABM…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Osonde A. Osoba , Raffaele Vardavas , Justin Grana , Rushil Zutshi , Amber Jaycocks

Mechanistic simulators are an indispensable tool for epidemiology to explore the behavior of complex, dynamic infections under varying conditions and navigate uncertain environments. Agent-based models (ABMs) are an increasingly popular…

Agent-based modeling is a powerful simulation technique to understand the collective behavior and microscopic interaction in complex financial systems. Recently, the concept for determining the key parameters of the agent-based models from…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2017-03-21 T. T. Chen , B. Zheng , Y. Li , X. F. Jiang

Agent-based modeling (ABM) provides a powerful framework for exploring how individual behaviors and interactions give rise to collective social dynamics. However, most ABMs rely on handcrafted or parameterized agent rules that are not…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Abdul Sittar , Miha Cesnovar , Alenka Gucek , Marko Grobelnik

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems have transformed various industries by autonomously generating content that mimics human creativity. However, concerns about their social and economic consequences arise with widespread…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Joao Tiago Aparicio , Manuela Aparicio , Sofia Aparicio , Carlos J. Costa

Agent-Based Modelling (ABM) has emerged as an essential tool for simulating social networks, encompassing diverse phenomena such as information dissemination, influence dynamics, and community formation. However, manually configuring varied…

Agent-based models (ABMs) are simulation models used in economics to overcome some of the limitations of traditional frameworks based on general equilibrium assumptions. However, agents within an ABM follow predetermined 'bounded rational'…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Simone Brusatin , Tommaso Padoan , Andrea Coletta , Domenico Delli Gatti , Aldo Glielmo

Multi-agent simulations enables the modeling and analyses of the dynamic behaviors and interactions of autonomous entities evolving in complex environments. Agent-based models (ABM) are widely used to study emergent phenomena arising from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Paul Saves , Nicolas Verstaevel , Benoît Gaudou

The history of research in finance and economics has been widely impacted by the field of Agent-based Computational Economics (ACE). While at the same time being popular among natural science researchers for its proximity to the successful…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2018-01-26 J. Lussange , A. Belianin , S. Bourgeois-Gironde , B. Gutkin

Riots originating during, or in the aftermath of, sports events can incur significant costs in damages, as well as large-scale panic and injuries. A mathematical description of sports riots is therefore sought to better understand their…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-04-27 Alastair J. Clements , Nabil T. Fadai

Housing markets are inherently spatial, yet many existing models fail to capture this spatial dimension. Here we introduce a new graph-based approach for incorporating a spatial component in a large-scale urban housing agent-based model…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-03-25 Benjamin Patrick Evans , Kirill Glavatskiy , Michael S. Harré , Mikhail Prokopenko

Agent based modelling (ABM) is a computational approach to modelling complex systems by specifying the behaviour of autonomous decision-making components or agents in the system and allowing the system dynamics to emerge from their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Leo Ardon , Jared Vann , Deepeka Garg , Tom Spooner , Sumitra Ganesh

The advent of artificial intelligence has led to a growing emphasis on data-driven modeling in macroeconomics, with agent-based modeling (ABM) emerging as a prominent bottom-up simulation paradigm. In ABM, agents (e.g., households, firms)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Nian Li , Chen Gao , Mingyu Li , Yong Li , Qingmin Liao

Societies are complex. Properties of social systems can be explained by the interplay and weaving of individual actions. Incentives are key to understand people's choices and decisions. For instance, individual preferences of where to live…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-09-20 Egemen Sert , Yaneer Bar-Yam , Alfredo J. Morales

Social-ecological systems research aims to understand the nature of social-ecological phenomena, to find ways to foster or manage conditions under which desired phenomena occur or to reduce the negative consequences of undesirable…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Sonja Radosavljevic , Udita Sanga , Maja Schlüter

Economic agent-based models (ABMs) are becoming more and more data-driven, establishing themselves as increasingly valuable tools for economic research and policymaking. We propose to classify the extent to which an ABM is data-driven based…

General Economics · Economics 2024-12-24 Marco Pangallo , R. Maria del Rio-Chanona

The study of system complexity primarily has two objectives: to explore underlying patterns and to develop theoretical explanations. Pattern exploration seeks to clarify the mechanisms behind the emergence of system complexity, while…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Xiao Xue , Deyu Zhou , Ming Zhang , Xiangning Yu , Fei-Yue Wang

An increasing number of emerging applications, e.g., internet of things, vehicular communications, augmented reality, and the growing complexity due to the interoperability requirements of these systems, lead to the need to change the tools…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Merim Dzaferagic , M. Majid Butt , Maria Murphy , Nicholas Kaminski , Nicola Marchetti