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Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have spurred growing interest in using LLM-integrated agents for social simulation, often under the implicit assumption that realistic population dynamics will emerge once role-specified…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yiming Li , Dacheng Tao

Multi-agent models are a suitable starting point to model complex social interactions. However, as the complexity of the systems increase, we argue that novel modeling approaches are needed that can deal with inter-dependencies at different…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Frank Dignum

Simulations, although powerful in accurately replicating real-world systems, often remain inaccessible to non-technical users due to their complexity. Conversely, large language models (LLMs) provide intuitive, language-based interactions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Jacob Kleiman , Kevin Frank , Joseph Voyles , Sindy Campagna

The ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to mimic human behavior triggered a plethora of computational social science research, assuming that empirical studies of humans can be conducted with AI agents instead. Since there have been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Simon Münker , Nils Schwager , Achim Rettinger

Without any doubt, Machine Learning (ML) will be an important driver of future communications due to its foreseen performance when applied to complex problems. However, the application of ML to networking systems raises concerns among…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Francesc Wilhelmi , Marc Carrascosa , Cristina Cano , Anders Jonsson , Vishnu Ram , Boris Bellalta

We built a multiagent simulation of urban traffic to model both ordinary traffic and emergency or crisis mode traffic. This simulation first builds a modeled road network based on detailed geographical information. On this network, the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-01-27 Pierrick Tranouez , Eric Daudé , Patrice Langlois

Social network simulation is developed to provide a comprehensive understanding of social networks in the real world, which can be leveraged for a wide range of applications such as group behavior emergence, policy optimization, and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Yunyao Zhang , Zikai Song , Hang Zhou , Wenfeng Ren , Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen , Junqing Yu , Wei Yang

The paper provides an introduction to agent-based modelling and simulation of social processes. Reader is introduced to the worldview underlying agent-based models, some basic terminology, basic properties of agent-based models, as well as…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Armano Srbljinovic , Ognjen Skunca

Individual traffic significantly contributes to climate change and environmental degradation. Therefore, innovation in sustainable mobility is gaining importance as it helps to reduce environmental pollution. However, effects of new ideas…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Johannes Nguyen , Simon T. Powers , Neil Urquhart , Thomas Farrenkopf , Michael Guckert

Many challenges remain before AI agents can be deployed in real-world environments. However, one virtue of such environments is that they are inherently multi-agent and contain human experts. Using advanced social intelligence in such an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Eric Ye , Ren Tao , Natasha Jaques

Social acceptability is an important consideration for HCI designers who develop technologies for social contexts. However, the current theoretical foundations of social acceptability research do not account for the complex interactions…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Alarith Uhde , Marc Hassenzahl

This position paper examines the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) in social simulation, analyzing their potential and limitations from a computational social science perspective. We first review recent findings on LLMs' ability to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Patrick Taillandier , Jean Daniel Zucker , Arnaud Grignard , Benoit Gaudou , Nghi Quang Huynh , Alexis Drogoul

In this work we present a prototype for simulating computer network attacks. Our objective is to simulate large networks (thousands of hosts, with applications and vulnerabilities) while remaining realistic from the attacker's point of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-06-15 Carlos Sarraute , Fernando Miranda , Jose I. Orlicki

A complex system is made up of many components with many interactions. So the design of systems such as simulation systems, cooperative systems or assistance systems includes a very accurate modelling of interactional and communicational…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2012-01-19 Alain-Jérôme Fougères

In this work, the concept of a system for analysing social relations between entities using the social network analysis and multi-agent system approaches is presented. The following problems especially appear within the domain of our…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-03-26 Jarosław Koźlak , Anna Zygmunt , Edward Nawarecki

With growing capabilities of large language models (LLMs) comes growing affordances for human-like and context-aware conversational partners. On from this, some recent work has investigated the use of LLMs to simulate multiple…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Samuel Rhys Cox

With the rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs), recent years have witnessed many promising studies on leveraging LLM-based agents to simulate human social behavior. While prior work has demonstrated significant potential across…

Major challenges for the transition of power systems do not only tackle power electronics but also communication technology, power market economy and user acceptance studies. Simulation is an important research method therein, as it helps…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Manfred Pöchacker , Anita Sobe , Wilfried Elmenreich

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…

Multi-agent role-playing has recently shown promise for studying social behavior with language agents, but existing simulations are mostly monolingual and fail to model cross-lingual interaction, an essential property of real societies. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Xuan Zhang , Wenxuan Zhang , Anxu Wang , See-Kiong Ng , Yang Deng