Am 17.04.2019 um 07:38 schrieb PhDr. Mgr. Frantisek Kalvas Ph.D.:
> I have started finishing my little book on ABM and surprisingly I can't find any canonical definitions of "agent" and "agent-based modeling". I would very appreciate if you share with me your favorite definitions or if you direct me to your favorite or canonical sources.
Notice the ambiguity of the term "agent" that may denote an entity in
the real world,
in which case its definition is an issue for
philosophy/ontology/metaphysics, or a
technical concept in software engineering.
It's probably easier to define the term "agent-based modeling and
simulation".
In a recent paper
(https://www.informs-sim.org/wsc18papers/includes/files/074.pdf),
we have observed that "the term 'agent-based' simulation is used
ambiguously both for
individual-based simulation and cognitive agent simulation. The former,
which is sometimes
also called 'microscopic' simulation, takes the structure and
interactions of individual
entities into consideration for modeling complex systems, whereas the
latter also
models the cognitive state and cognitive operations of an agent.
Thus, it seems natural to distinguish between a weak concept of
agents, commonly
used in individual-based simulation where agents are entities that
interact with their
environment and with each other, and a stronger concept that is based on
modeling the
cognitive (or mental) state of agents. In any case, since the
interactions of agents are
based on discrete perception and action events, it is natural to view an
agent-based
modeling and simulation approach as an extension of the Discrete Event
Simulation
paradigm."
--
Dr. Gerd Wagner
(1) Professor, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany
(2) Adjunct Associate Professor, Old Dominion University, USA
Email: [log in to unmask] Tel: (+49|0) 355.69.2397
Web: http://oxygen.informatik.tu-cottbus.de/IT
--
(1) Chair of Internet Technology
Brandenburg University of Technology
Cottbus, Germany
--
(2) Department Modeling, Simulation
and Visualization Engineering
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA, USA
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