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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

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

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…

Nowadays, social media networks are increasingly significant to our lives, the imperative to study social media networks becomes more and more essential. With billions of users across platforms and constant updates, the complexity of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Haoyuan Li , Lidia Conde Matos , Eduardo César Galobardes , Anna Sikora

Parameter calibration is a major challenge in agent-based modelling and simulation (ABMS). As the complexity of agent-based models (ABMs) increase, the number of parameters required to be calibrated grows. This leads to the ABMS equivalent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Rylan Perumal , Terence L van Zyl

We present our Agent-Based Market Microstructure Simulation (ABMMS), an Agent-Based Financial Market (ABFM) that captures much of the complexity present in the US National Market System for equities (NMS). Agent-Based models are a natural…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2023-11-28 Colin M. Van Oort , Ethan Ratliff-Crain , Brian F. Tivnan , Safwan Wshah

Agent-based models (ABMs) have shown promise for modelling various real world phenomena incompatible with traditional equilibrium analysis. However, a critical concern is the manual definition of behavioural rules in ABMs. Recent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Benjamin Patrick Evans , Sumitra Ganesh

A key problem in agent-based simulation is that integrating qualitative insights from multiple discipline experts is extremely hard. In most simulations, agent capabilities and corresponding behaviour needs to be programmed into the agent.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Vivek Nallur , Pedram Aghaei , Graham Finlay

We introduce DeepABM, a framework for agent-based modeling that leverages geometric message passing of graph neural networks for simulating action and interactions over large agent populations. Using DeepABM allows scaling simulations to…

Parameter identification for mechanistic Ordinary Differential Equation (ODE) models underpins prediction and control in several applications, yet remains a manual and labor-intensive process: datasets are noisy and partial, models can be…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Saakaar Bhatnagar

Agent-based Models (ABMs) are valuable tools for policy analysis. ABMs help analysts explore the emergent consequences of policy interventions in multi-agent decision-making settings. But the validity of inferences drawn from ABM…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Osonde A. Osoba , Raffaele Vardavas , Justin Grana , Rushil Zutshi , Amber Jaycocks

Innovation diffusion has been studied extensively in a variety of disciplines, including sociology, economics, marketing, ecology, and computer science. Traditional literature on innovation diffusion has been dominated by models of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-05-26 Haifeng Zhang , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

Agent-based epidemic models (ABMs) encode behavioral and policy heterogeneity but are too slow for nightly hospital planning. We develop county-ready surrogates that learn directly from exascale ABM trajectories using Universal Differential…

Agent-Based Models are very useful for simulation of physical or social processes, such as the spreading of a pandemic in a city. Such models proceed by specifying the behavior of individuals (agents) and their interactions, and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Varun Madhavan , Adway Mitra , Partha Pratim Chakrabarti

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

Automatic differentiation (AD), a technique for constructing new programs which compute the derivative of an original program, has become ubiquitous throughout scientific computing and deep learning due to the improved performance afforded…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Gaurav Arya , Moritz Schauer , Frank Schäfer , Chris Rackauckas

Computational experiments have emerged as a valuable method for studying complex systems, involving the algorithmization of counterfactuals. However, accurately representing real social systems in Agent-based Modeling (ABM) is challenging…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Qun Ma , Xiao Xue , Deyu Zhou , Xiangning Yu , Donghua Liu , Xuwen Zhang , Zihan Zhao , Yifan Shen , Peilin Ji , Juanjuan Li , Gang Wang , Wanpeng Ma

Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for accelerating scientific discovery, yet their static knowledge and hallucination issues hinder autonomous research applications. Recent advances integrate LLMs into agentic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Zeyu Xia , Jinzhe Ma , Congjie Zheng , Shufei Zhang , Yuqiang Li , Hang Su , P. Hu , Changshui Zhang , Xingao Gong , Wanli Ouyang , Lei Bai , Dongzhan Zhou , Mao Su

Systematic exploration of Agent-Based Models (ABMs) is challenged by the curse of dimensionality and their inherent stochasticity. We present a multi-stage pipeline integrating the systematic design of experiments with machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Paul Saves , Matthieu Mastio , Nicolas Verstaevel , Benoit Gaudou

Intelligent agents offer a new and exciting way of understanding the world of work. Agent-Based Simulation (ABS), one way of using intelligent agents, carries great potential for progressing our understanding of management practices and how…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-07-05 Peer-Olaf Siebers , Uwe Aickelin , Helen Celia , Chris Clegg