This article looks at 20 years of applications of agent‐based models (ABMs) in sociology
and, in particular, their explanatory achievements and methodological insights. These …

Agent-based models are an increasingly powerful tool for simulating social systems
because they can represent important phenomenon difficult to capture in other mathematical …

A clear consensus among the papers in this Colloquium is that agent-based modeling is a
revolutionary development for social science. However, the reasons to expect this revolution …

Agent-based modeling and simulation (ABMS) is a new approach to modeling systems
comprised of autonomous, interacting agents. ABMS promises to have far-reaching effects …

Agent-based modelling (ABM) is the computational study of social agents as evolving
systems of autonomous interacting agents. ABM is a tool for the study of social systems from …

Agent based modeling (ABM) is a standard tool that is useful across many disciplines.
Despite widespread and mounting interest in ABM, even broader adoption has been …