Everything you need to know about agent-based modelling and simulation
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This paper addresses the background and current state of the field of agent-based modelling and simulation (ABMS). It revisits the issue of ABMS represents as a new development, considering the extremes of being an overhyped fad, doomed to disappear, or a revolutionary development, shifting fundamental paradigms of how research is conducted. This paper identifies key ABMS resources, publications, and communities. It also proposes several complementary definitions for ABMS, based on practice, intended to establish a common vocabulary for understanding ABMS, which seems to be lacking. It concludes by suggesting research challenges for ABMS to advance and realize its potential in the coming years.
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A continuous flow of data representing the changing characteristics of the objects is a relevant feature of the software architecture for Virtual and Augmented Reality distributed systems that is especially important for the Digital Twin concept.
“• A continuous flow of data representing the changing characteristics of the objects;”
From Digital Twin in the IoT Context: A Survey on Technical Features, Scenarios, and Architectural Models (2020) · cites this paper as [70]
A continuous tracking of the physical and logical objects in order to locate or relate them in space and time is a relevant feature of the software architecture for Virtual and Augmented Reality distributed systems that is especially important for the Digital Twin concept.
“• A continuous tracking of the physical and logical objects in order to locate or relate them in space and time;”
From Digital Twin in the IoT Context: A Survey on Technical Features, Scenarios, and Architectural Models (2020) · cites this paper as [70]
Models of behavior representation for physical objects and reasoning about events and modifications to the context is a relevant feature of the software architecture for Virtual and Augmented Reality distributed systems that is especially important for the Digital Twin concept.
“• Models of behavior representation for physical objects and reasoning about events and modifications to the context; and”
From Digital Twin in the IoT Context: A Survey on Technical Features, Scenarios, and Architectural Models (2020) · cites this paper as [70]
The representation and the alignment to physical constraints of the physical world is a relevant feature of the software architecture for Virtual and Augmented Reality distributed systems that is especially important for the Digital Twin concept.
“• The representation and the alignment to physical constraints of the physical world.”
From Digital Twin in the IoT Context: A Survey on Technical Features, Scenarios, and Architectural Models (2020) · cites this paper as [70]
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- Authors
- Macal, C. M.
- Affiliations
- Argonne National Laboratory (US)
- Corresponding author
- Macal, C M
- ORCID
- Macal, C M
- Venue
- Journal of Simulation
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2016-05
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 144-156
- ISSN
- 1747-7778 (ISSN-L)
- 1747-7786
- OpenAlex
- W2363930778
- Cited by
- 469
- References
- 124
- Citations by year
- 2026: 29 · 2025: 52 · 2024: 54 · 2023: 50 · 2022: 58 · 2021: 54 · 2020: 55 · 2019: 45 · 2018: 36 · 2017: 32 · 2016: 4
- FWCI
- 42.70
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Simulation (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Simulation Techniques and Applications
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computational Theory and Mathematics › Modeling and Simulation Systems
- Keywords
- state of the discipline
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