How to build and use agent-based models in social science

By N. Gilbert, P. Terna. 2000

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Modelling climate change impacts on marine fish populations: process-based integration of ocean warming, acidification and other environmental drivers (2016, methodology): “Societal dynamics can be implemented e.g. using network models 904 (Janssen et al., 2006) or arising from individual actor behaviour in ‘agent-based’ models 905 (Gilbert and Terna, 2000).”
Agent-Based Modeling: A New Approach for Theory Building in Social Psychology (2007, unknown): ““Evolutionary game theory” (Gintis, 2000; Maynard Smith, 1982) examines the outcomes as a changing and adapting population of agents interacts with each other and with an environment over many simulated generations and analyzes the agent strategies that fare best in such competition.”
A Third Wave in the Economics of Climate Change (2015, methodology): “AsABMs are software programs, they need to be subject to software testing, diagnostic experiments and debugging procedures to ensure that the computer code executes as intended (Gilbert and Terna 2000).”
Large language models empowered agent-based modeling and simulation: a survey and perspectives (2023, unknown): “In this section, we will ﬁ rst introduce the background of agent-based modeling and simulation, and large language models-empowered agents.”