Agent-based Social Simulation - Multi-Agent System

Multi-Agent System

Multi-agent system is a system created from multiple autonomous elements interacting and reacting on each other. These are called Agents. Agent-based model In simulation, Agents can be used to simulate many different elements. It could be society, organism, machine, person or any other active element, which does, or does not exist in real world. In multi-agent system agent is represented by software program. This program contains in itself all rules of agents behaviour. Purpose of models could be simulation of social phenomen like transportation, market failures, cooperation and escalation and spreading of conflicts. Agents in concept of ABSS In Agent based social systems, agents Emergence in context of social simulation In agent based simulations we can observe phenomenon, when model based on simple rules results in very complex dynamics. This phenomenon is related to emergence and one of recent topic of social science is concept of emerging behaviour in social science (Kontopoulos, 1993; Archer, 1995; Sawyer, 2001).