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Agent-based modeling (ABM) is a powerful computational approach for studying complex biological and biomedical systems, yet its widespread use remains limited by significant computational demands. As models become increasingly…

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Agent-based models (ABMs) are a promising approach to modelling and reasoning about complex systems, yet their application in practice is impeded by their complexity, discrete nature, and the difficulty of performing parameter inference and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Arnau Quera-Bofarull , Joel Dyer , Anisoara Calinescu , Michael Wooldridge

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

With recent and rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), understanding the foundation of purposeful behaviour in autonomous agents is crucial for developing safe and efficient systems. While artificial neural networks have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Aswin Paul , Moein Khajehnejad , Forough Habibollahi , Brett J. Kagan , Adeel Razi

Integrating theoretical neuroscience, decision theory, and probabilistic inference offers a promising route to understanding human cognition, yet concrete methodological bridges between agentic AI models and behavioral data analysis remain…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-01 Dirk Ostwald , Rasmus Bruckner , Franziska Usée , Belinda Fleischmann , Joram Soch , Sean Mulready

Generative Agent-Based Modeling (GABM) leverages Large Language Models to create autonomous agents that simulate human behavior in social media environments, demonstrating potential for modeling information propagation, influence processes,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Valerio La Gatta , Gian Marco Orlando , Marco Perillo , Ferdinando Tammaro , Vincenzo Moscato

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

Agent-based modelling (ABMing) is a powerful and intuitive approach to modelling complex systems; however, the intractability of ABMs' likelihood functions and the non-differentiability of the mathematical operations comprising these models…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Arnau Quera-Bofarull , Ayush Chopra , Anisoara Calinescu , Michael Wooldridge , Joel Dyer

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 emergence of large language models (LLMs) has significantly advanced the simulation of believable interactive agents. However, the substantial cost on maintaining the prolonged agent interactions poses challenge over the deployment of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Yangbin Yu , Qin Zhang , Junyou Li , Qiang Fu , Deheng Ye

Large language model (LLM)-based multi-agent systems enable expressive agent reasoning but are expensive to scale and poorly calibrated for timestep-aligned state-transition simulation, while classical agent-based models (ABMs) offer…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Kavana Venkatesh , Yinhan He , Jundong Li , Jiaming Cui

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 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…

A smart grid can be considered as a complex network where each node represents a generation unit or a consumer. Whereas links can be used to represent transmission lines. One way to study complex systems is by using the agent-based modeling…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Waseem Akram , Muaz A. Niazi , Laszlo Barna Iantovics

Running agent-based models (ABMs) is a burdensome computational task, specially so when considering the flexibility ABMs intrinsically provide. This paper uses a bundle of model configuration parameters along with obtained results from a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Bernardo Alves Furtado

Today's most troublesome population health challenges are often driven by social and environmental determinants, which are difficult to model using traditional epidemiological methods. We agree with those who have argued for the wider…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Eric Silverman , Umberto Gostoli , Stefano Picascia , Jonatan Almagor , Mark McCann , Richard Shaw , Claudio Angione

This is the first part of the comprehensive review, focusing on the historical development of Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) and its classic cases. It begins by discussing the development history and design principles of Agent-Based Modeling…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Xiao Xue , Deyu Zhou , Ming Zhang , Fei-Yue Wang

Despite the frequent use of agent-based models (ABMs) for studying social phenomena, parameter estimation remains a challenge, often relying on costly simulation-based heuristics. This work uses variational inference to estimate the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Jacopo Lenti , Fabrizio Silvestri , Gianmarco De Francisci Morales

Designing and evaluating personalized and proactive assistant agents remains challenging due to the time, cost, and ethical concerns associated with human-in-the-loop experimentation. Existing Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) methods often…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Ziyi Xuan , Yiwen Wu , Xuhai Xu , Vinod Namboodiri , Mooi Choo Chuah , Yu Yang

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