TY - GEN
T1 - Guidelines for design and analysis in agent-based simulation studies
AU - Kasaie, Parastu
AU - Kelton, W. David
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2016/2/16
Y1 - 2016/2/16
N2 - Agent-based simulation (ABS) continues to grow in popularity and in its fast-expanding application in various fields. Despite the increased interest, however, a common protocol or standard curriculum for development and analysis of ABS models hardly exists. As originally discrete-event simulation (DES) modelers, self-taught and still new to the world of ABS modeling, we have occasionally observed a gap between traditional simulation theory and current practices of ABS in the literature. This points to great unevenness among existing ABS applications in terms of concepts and design, quantitative and computational techniques used in analysis of models, as well as domain-specific issues in different fields. In this paper, we review a number of important topics and issues in the design and analysis of ABS models that deserve attention. Our discussion is supported by some illustrative examples from ABS models of disease epidemics, but it's applicable to a fairly general class of ABS models.
AB - Agent-based simulation (ABS) continues to grow in popularity and in its fast-expanding application in various fields. Despite the increased interest, however, a common protocol or standard curriculum for development and analysis of ABS models hardly exists. As originally discrete-event simulation (DES) modelers, self-taught and still new to the world of ABS modeling, we have occasionally observed a gap between traditional simulation theory and current practices of ABS in the literature. This points to great unevenness among existing ABS applications in terms of concepts and design, quantitative and computational techniques used in analysis of models, as well as domain-specific issues in different fields. In this paper, we review a number of important topics and issues in the design and analysis of ABS models that deserve attention. Our discussion is supported by some illustrative examples from ABS models of disease epidemics, but it's applicable to a fairly general class of ABS models.
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U2 - 10.1109/WSC.2015.7408163
DO - 10.1109/WSC.2015.7408163
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84962815393
T3 - Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference
SP - 183
EP - 193
BT - 2015 Winter Simulation Conference, WSC 2015
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - Winter Simulation Conference, WSC 2015
Y2 - 6 December 2015 through 9 December 2015
ER -