WHY AGENTS? ON THE VARIED MOTIVATIONS FOR AGENT COMPUTING IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

By Robert L. Axtell. 2000

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Everything you need to know about agent-based modelling and simulation (2016, background): “Axtell (2000) argues that ABMS provides unique kinds of information that are not available from any other modelling approach.”
Tutorial on Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation PART 2: How to Model with Agents (2006, background): “Furthermore, not all systems come to an equilibrium (Axtell 2000).”
Tutorial on agent-based modeling and simulation (2005, background): “Furthermore, not all systems come to an equilibrium (Axtell 2000).”
The city size distribution debate: Resolution for US urban regions and megalopolitan areas (2012, background): “007 In the first group, Axtell and Florida (2001) have produced Zipfian steady states via agent-based modeling.(10) Numerical solutions yield empirically-accurate firm characteristics: a right-skewed distribution of firm sizes, a double-exponential distribution of growth rates and variance in growth”
Agent-based Models of Geographical Systems (2012, background): “Axtell, R. L., Epstein, J. M., Dean, J. S., Gumerman, G. J., Swedlund, A. C., Harburger, J., et al. (2002). Population growth and collapse in a multiagent model of the Kayenta Anasazi in Long House Valley. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 99 (Suppl 3), 7275. Bak, P. (1996). How natur”
Agent-based modeling and simulation (2009, unknown): “Axtell (2000) discusses several reasons for agent-based modeling especially compared to traditional approaches to modeling economic systems.”
A new tool for epidemiology: the usefulness of dynamic-agent models in understanding place effects on health. (2008, methodology): “Robustness testing in agent-based models involves running the model multiple times, systematically varying initial conditions or parameters in order to assess the stability of results (60).”
Social Behaviors, Enforcement, and Tax Compliance Dynamics (2003, unknown): “Agent-based models have both advantages and disadvantages (see Axtell [2000] for a more detailed discussion).”
Tipping Points in Macroeconomic Agent-Based Models (2013, background): “[5] for early papers on ABM for economics, see e.”