A method for developing agent-based models of socio-technical systems

Igor Nikolic; Amineh Ghorbani

doi:10.1109/ICNSC.2011.5874914

A method for developing agent-based models of socio-technical systems

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Abstract

Agent-based modeling is one of the popular tools for analyzing complex socio-technical systems. Because of the complex nature of such systems a systematic methodology is required to guide the modeling process. By studying the existing methodologies in MAS we distinguished four major differences between MAS and ABM regarding goals, system scale and diversity, level of system understanding and verification and validation concerns. In this paper we take these differences into account and based on more than 25 case studies, we present a methodological framework for developing agent-based models that consists of five general iterative phases. These phases namely: system analysis, model design, detailed design, implementation and evaluation further consists of smaller step that are also addressed in this paper. This methodology provides a tool independent template while respecting the specific requirements for ABM.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2011 International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, ICNSC 2011
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	44-49
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	9781424495702
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNSC.2011.5874914
Publication status	Published - 11 Jul 2011
Event	2011 International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, ICNSC 2011 - Delft, Netherlands Duration: 11 Apr 2011 → 13 Apr 2011

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Conference	2011 International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, ICNSC 2011
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Delft
Period	11/04/11 → 13/04/11

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