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In this paper, we present an activity-based model for the Greater Melbourne area, using a combination of hierarchical clustering, probabilistic, and gravity-based approaches. The model outlines steps for generating a synthetic population-a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Alan Both , Dhirendra Singh , Afshin Jafari , Billie Giles-Corti , Lucy Gunn

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

Deciphering travel behavior and mode choices is a critical aspect of effective urban transportation system management, particularly in developing countries where unique socio-economic and cultural conditions complicate decision-making.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Kathleen Salazar-Serna , Lorena Cadavid , Carlos Franco

Urban traffic congestion remains a persistent issue for cities worldwide. Recent macroscopic models have adopted a mathematically well-defined relation between network flow and density to characterize traffic states over an urban region.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-09 Mostafa Ameli , Jean-Patrick Lebacque , Negin Alisoltani , Ludovic Leclercq

Despite the potential of language model-based agents to solve real-world tasks such as web navigation, current methods still struggle with long-horizon tasks with complex action trajectories. In contrast, humans can flexibly solve complex…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Zora Zhiruo Wang , Jiayuan Mao , Daniel Fried , Graham Neubig

Business process simulation (BPS) is a versatile technique for estimating process performance across various scenarios. Traditionally, BPS approaches employ a control-flow-first perspective by enriching a process model with simulation…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Lukas Kirchdorfer , Robert Blümel , Timotheus Kampik , Han van der Aa , Heiner Stuckenschmidt

Bathtub models are used to study urban traffic within a certain area. They do not require to take into account the detailed network topology. The emergence of different bathtub models has raised the question of which model can provide more…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Jiayi Guo , Irene Martínez , Gonçalo Correia , Bart van Arem

This study investigates the spatial integration of agent-based models (ABMs) and compartmental models for infectious disease modeling, presenting a novel hybrid approach and examining its implications. ABMs offer detailed insights by…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-02-06 Inan Bostanci , Tim Conrad

A key challenge in agent-based mobility simulations is the synthesis of individual agent socioeconomic profiles. Such profiles include locations of agent activities, which dictate the quality of the simulated travel patterns. These…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-10-10 Ioannis Zachos , Theodoros Damoulas , Mark Girolami

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

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 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

Active Queue Management(AQM) is an efficient tool in the network to avoid saturation of the queue by warning the sender that the queue is almost full to reduce its speed before the queue is full. The buffer management schemes focus on space…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-04-12 Said El Kafhali , Mohamed Hanini , Abdelali El Bouchti , Abdelkrim Haqtq

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

Taking agent-based models (ABM) closer to the data is an open challenge. This paper explicitly tackles parameter space exploration and calibration of ABMs combining supervised machine-learning and intelligent sampling to build a surrogate…

Economics · Quantitative Finance 2017-04-07 Francesco Lamperti , Andrea Roventini , Amir Sani

In this paper we present an agent-based model (ABM) of scientific inquiry aimed at investigating how different social networks impact the efficiency of scientists in acquiring knowledge. As such, the ABM is a computational tool for tackling…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-12-15 Annemarie Borg , Daniel Frey , Dunja Šešelja , Christian Straßer

Demand Responsive Shared Transport DRST services take advantage of Information and Communication Technologies ICT, to provide on demand transport services booking in real time a ride on a shared vehicle. In this paper, an agent-based model…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Giuseppe Inturri , Nadia Giuffrida , Matteo Ignaccolo , Michela Le Pira , Alessandro Pluchino , Andrea Rapisarda

Over the past decade, there has been a surge of interest in the transport community in the application of agent-based simulation models to evaluate flexible transit solutions characterized by different degrees of short-term flexibility in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-11-22 David Leffler , Wilco Burghout , Oded Cats , Erik Jenelius

Traditional agent-based urban mobility simulations often rely on rigid rulebased systems that struggle to capture the complexity, adaptability, and behavioral diversity inherent in human travel decision making. Inspired by recent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Qi Liu , Can Li , Wanjing Ma

Agent-based and activity-based models for simulating transportation systems have attracted significant attention in recent years. Few studies, however, include a detailed representation of active modes of transportation - such as walking…