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The reproduction of realistic dynamics in financial markets is of great significance, as it enhances our understanding of market evolution beyond other physical processes, and facilitates the development and backtesting of investment…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Tianlang He , Fengming Zhu , Keyan Lu , Chang Xu , Yang Liu , Weiqing Liu , Fangzhen Lin , S. -H. Gary Chan , Jiang Bian

Mobility restriction is considered one of the main policies to contain COVID-10 spreading. However, there are multiple ways to reduce mobility via differentiated restrictions, and it is not easy to predict the actual impact on virus…

Agent-Based Models (ABM) are computational scenario-generators, which can be used to predict the possible future outcomes of the complex system they represent. To better understand the robustness of these predictions, it is necessary to…

General Economics · Economics 2022-08-08 Karl Naumann-Woleske , Max Sina Knicker , Michael Benzaquen , Jean-Philippe Bouchaud

Agent based modelling is a computational approach that aims to understand the behaviour of complex systems through simplified interactions of programmable objects in computer memory called agents. Agent based models (ABMs) are predominantly…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Renu Solanki , Monisha Khanna , Shailly Anand , Anita Gulati , Prateek Kumar , Munendra Kumar , Dushyant Kumar

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic drove a widespread, often uncoordinated effort by research groups to develop mathematical models of SARS-CoV-2 to study its spread and inform control efforts. The urgent demand for insight at the outset of…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2023-06-21 Alexander N. Pillai , Kok Ben Toh , Dianela Perdomo , Sanjana Bhargava , Arlin Stoltzfus , Ira M. Longini , Carl A. B. Pearson , Thomas J. Hladish

In recent years, dynamic agent-based population models, which model every inhabitant of a country as a statistically representative agent, have been gaining in popularity for decision support. This is mainly due to their high degree of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Martin Bicher , Maximilian Viehauser , Daniele Giannandrea , Hannah Kastinger , Dominik Brunmeir , Niki Popper

Essential workers face elevated infection risks due to their critical roles during pandemics, and protecting them remains a significant challenge for public health planning. This study develops SAFE-ABM, a simulation-based framework using…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-05 Elizabeth B. Amona , Indranil Sahoo , Ya Su , Edward L. Boone , Gwendoline Nelis , Ryad Ghanam

Agent-based models (ABMs) are proliferating as decision-making tools across policy areas in transportation, economics, and epidemiology. In these models, a central object of interest is the discrete origin-destination matrix which captures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Ioannis Zachos , Mark Girolami , Theodoros Damoulas

Agent-based models (ABMs) simulate the formation and evolution of social processes at a fundamental level by decoupling agent behavior from global observations. In the case where ABM networks evolve over time as a result of (or in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Karleigh Pine , Joel Klipfel , Jared Bennett , Nathaniel Bade , Christian Manasseh

Computational disease modeling plays a crucial role in understanding and controlling the transmission of infectious diseases. While agent-based models (ABMs) provide detailed insights into individual dynamics, accurately replicating human…

The COVID-19 pandemic prompted a surge in computational models to simulate disease dynamics and guide interventions. Agent-based models (ABMs) are well-suited to capture population and environmental heterogeneity, but their rapid deployment…

Agent-based models (ABMs) highlight the importance of simulation validation, such as qualitative face validation and quantitative empirical validation. In particular, we focused on quantitative validation by adjusting simulation input…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Dongjun Kim , Tae-Sub Yun , Il-Chul Moon , Jang Won Bae

This paper presents a hybrid modeling approach that couples an Agent-Based Model (ABM) with a partial differential equation (PDE) model in an epidemic setting to simulate the spatial spread of infectious diseases using a compartmental…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Kristina Kehrer , Tim O. F. Conrad

Agent-based models (ABM) are gaining traction as one of the most powerful modelling tools within the social sciences. They are particularly suited to simulating complex systems. Despite many methodological advances within ABM, one of the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Le-Minh Kieu , Nicolas Malleson , Alison Heppenstall

Agent-based modeling is a paradigm of modeling dynamic systems of interacting agents that are individually governed by specified behavioral rules. Training a model of such agents to produce an emergent behavior by specification of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Karan K. Budhraja , Hang Gao , Tim Oates

Agent-based modelling (ABM), simulation (ABS), and distributed computation (ABC) are established methods. The Internet and Web-based technologies are suitable carriers. This paper is a technical report with some tutorial aspects of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Stefan Bosse

Agent-Based Models (ABMs) are used in several fields to study the evolution of complex systems from micro-level assumptions. However, ABMs typically can not estimate agent-specific (or "micro") variables: this is a major limitation which…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-11-24 Corrado Monti , Marco Pangallo , Gianmarco De Francisci Morales , Francesco Bonchi

Agent-based modeling (ABM) is a principal approach for studying complex systems. By decomposing a system into simpler, interacting agents, agent-based modeling (ABM) allows researchers to observe the emergence of complex phenomena.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Siddharth Chaturvedi , Ahmed El-Gazzar , Marcel van Gerven

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

Mathematical and simulation models are often used to predict the spread of a disease and estimate the impact of public health interventions, and many such models have been developed and used during the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-18 Jeffrey W. Herrmann , Hongjie Liu , Donald K. Milton