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Agent-based modelling (ABM) is a facet of wider Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) research that explores the collective behaviour of individual `agents', and the implications that their behaviour and interactions have for wider systemic behaviour.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Nick Malleson , Mark Birkin , Daniel Birks , Jiaqi Ge , Alison Heppenstall , Ed Manley , Josie McCulloch , Patricia Ternes

This paper uses Covasim, an agent-based model (ABM) of COVID-19, to evaluate and scenarios of epidemic spread in New York State (USA), the UK, and the Novosibirsk region (Russia). Epidemiological parameters such as contagiousness (virus…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-09 Olga Krivorotko , Mariia Sosnovskaia , Ivan Vashchenko , Cliff Kerr , Daniel Lesnic

The spreading dynamics of infectious diseases is influenced by individual behaviours, which are in turn affected by the level of awareness about the epidemic. Modelling the co-evolution of disease transmission and behavioural changes within…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-27 Daniele Proverbio , Riccardo Tessarin , Giulia Giordano

To represent the complex individual interactions in the dynamics of disease spread informed by data, the coupling of an epidemiological agent-based model with the ensemble Kalman filter is proposed. The statistical inference of the…

Applications · Statistics 2022-05-04 Tadeo Javier Cocucci , Manuel Pulido , Juan Aparicio , Juan Ruiz , Ignacio Simoy , Santiago Rosa

Agent-based models (ABMs) simulate complex systems by capturing the bottom-up interactions of individual agents comprising the system. Many complex systems of interest, such as epidemics or financial markets, involve thousands or even…

Agent-based model (ABM) are a kind of computer model that makes it possible to simulate a set of autonomous interacting programs called agents in a shared virtual environment. Among other application field, it has been commonly used to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Arthur Brugière , Kévin Chapuis

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 modeling (ABM) is a well-established paradigm for simulating complex systems via interactions between constituent entities. Machine learning (ML) refers to approaches whereby statistical algorithms 'learn' from data on their…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-11-10 Nikita Sivakumar , Cameron Mura , Shayn M. Peirce

Agent-based modeling (ABM) has emerged as a powerful tool in social policy-making and socio-economics, offering a flexible and dynamic approach to understanding and simulating complex systems. While traditional analytic methods may be less…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Shayan Firouzian Haji

Over the years, population-level tobacco control policies have considerably reduced smoking prevalence worldwide. However, the rate of decline of smoking prevalence is slowing down. Therefore, there is a need for models that capture the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-07-19 Adarsh Prabhakaran , Valerio Restocchi , Benjamin D. Goddard

Agent based models (ABMs) are a useful tool for modeling spatio-temporal population dynamics, where many details can be included in the model description. Their computational cost though is very high and for stochastic ABMs a lot of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-05-11 Stefanie Winkelmann , Johannes Zonker , Christof Schütte , Natasa Djurdjevac Conrad

An agent-based model (ABM) is a computational model in which the local interactions of autonomous agents with each other and with their environment give rise to global properties within a given domain. As the detail and complexity of these…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-12-01 Daniel A. Cruz , Jack Toppen , Eunbi Park , Melissa L. Kemp , Elena S. Dimitrova

The outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020 has led to a surge in the interest in the mathematical modeling of infectious diseases. Disease transmission may be modeled as compartmental models, in which the population under study is divided into…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-10-27 Malú Grave , Alvaro L. G. A. Coutinho

This study examined a simulated confined space modelled as a hospital waiting area, where people who could have underlying conditions congregate and mix with potentially infectious individuals. It further investigated the impact of the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-05-24 J. A. Sarumi , E. C. Onwubiko , O. L. A. Ogunjimi

We present two models for the COVID-19 pandemic predicting the impact of universal face mask wearing upon the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus--one employing a stochastic dynamic network based compartmental SEIR…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-04-29 De Kai , Guy-Philippe Goldstein , Alexey Morgunov , Vishal Nangalia , Anna Rotkirch

Understanding how an individual changes its attitude, belief, and opinion due to other people's social influences is vital because of its wide implications. A core methodology that is used to study the change of attitude under social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Yun-Shiuan Chuang , Timothy T. Rogers

In this research, we study the propagation patterns of epidemic diseases such as the COVID-19 coronavirus, from a mathematical modeling perspective. The study is based on an extensions of the well-known susceptible-infected-recovered (SIR)…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2021-01-01 Reza Sameni

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

There are numerous scenarios in which populations of cells migrate in crowded environments. Typical examples include wound healing, cancer growth and embryo development. In these crowded environments cells are able to interact with each…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2019-07-03 Christian A. Yates , George Chappelle

Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in early March 2020, UK supermarkets have implemented different policies to reduce the virus transmission in stores to protect both customers and staff, such as restricting the maximum number of customers in a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-06-09 Fabian Ying , Neave O'Clery