RE: Advantages of agent-based modeling

[Rick Riolo]

you can find one comparison of ABM and EBM (equation-based,
i.e. system dynamics modeling) in this paper:

Agent-Based Modeling vs. Equation-Based Modeling: A Case Study and Users 
Guide. Parunak, V., Savit, R., Riolo, R. Proceedings of Workshop on 
Multi-agent systems and Agent-based Simulation (MABS'98), Springer, 1998. 
Center for Electronic Commerce Paper CEC-0 115.

There is a pointer it at 
   http://www.pscs.umich.edu/research/techReports.html
under the 1998 papers.

There are more references to books related to (modeling of)
complex adaptive systems (CAS) at
   
http://www.pscs.umich.edu/education/CSCS-courses/cscs530/generalCasReadings.html

- r

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On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Marshall, James A R wrote:

> Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 18:22:05 +0100 
> From: "Marshall, James A R" <address@hidden>
> Reply-To: address@hidden
> To: "'address@hidden'" <address@hidden>
> Subject: RE: Advantages of agent-based modeling
> 
> Hello,
>   perhaps in return you can outline some advantages of
> system dynamics to us? I'm an agent-based modelling
> person but am aware of this thing out there called
> system dynamics!
>       James
> 
> ---
> Dr James A R Marshall
> Container World Project - http://www.ese.ic.ac.uk/research/containerworld/
> Department of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Imperial College, London
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ceoji singh [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: 03 July 2002 15:26
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Advantages of agent-based modeling
> 
> 
> 
> Hi 
> 
> i have just started out with agent based
> modeling...and have a number of questions..some of
> which i am are 
> 1. what are the assumptions on which a typical agent
> based model rests.
> 2. how does the results from this technique compare
> with other simulation techniques. 
> 3. what are the advantages and disavantages of
> agent-based modeling...in other words what is it that
> is so great and bad about agent-based modeling...
> 
> i have read some material available on this on the net
> particularly the article why agents by Robert
> axtell...is there some material available on the web
> that compares top-down and bottom up approaches more
> vividly..i am a system dynamics guy...and have been
> not able to appreciate the differences too well
> 
> could somebody give me some pointers where i get
> related material. 
> 
> Thanks 
> 
> 
> 
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