Challenges, tasks, and opportunities in modeling agent-based complex systems

L An, V Grimm, A Sullivan, BL Turner Ii, N Malleson… - Ecological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Humanity is facing many grand challenges at unprecedented rates, nearly everywhere, and
at all levels. Yet virtually all these challenges can be traced back to the decision and …

Future developments in geographical agent‐based models: Challenges and opportunities

A Heppenstall, A Crooks, N Malleson… - Geographical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Despite reaching a point of acceptance as a research tool across the geographical and
social sciences, there remain significant methodological challenges for agent‐based …

Multi-agent systems and digital twins for smarter cities

T Clemen, N Ahmady-Moghaddam… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
An intelligent combination of the Internet of Things (IoT) and approaches to modeling and
simulation is one of the most challenging endeavors for future cities, manufacturing …

Improving model predictions—integration of real-time sensor data into a running simulation of an agent-based model

UA Lenfers, N Ahmady-Moghaddam, D Glake, F Ocker… - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
The current trend towards living in big cities contributes to an increased demand for efficient
and sustainable space and resource allocation in urban environments. This leads to …

Real-time agent-based crowd simulation with the Reversible Jump Unscented Kalman Filter

R Clay, JA Ward, P Ternes, LM Kieu… - … Modelling Practice and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Commonly-used data assimilation methods are being adapted for use with agent-based
models with the aim of allowing optimisation in response to new data in real-time. However …

Crowd flow forecasting via agent-based simulations with sequential latent parameter estimation from aggregate observation

F Makinoshima, Y Oishi - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Unlike conventional crowd simulations for what-if analysis, agent-based crowd simulations
for real-time applications are an emerging research topic and an important tool for better …

An architecture for intelligent agent-based digital twin for cyber-physical systems

H Marah, M Challenger - Digital twin driven intelligent systems and …, 2023 - Springer
Recent years have witnessed the emergence of the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0)
era. This direction is propelled by digitization endeavors in various sectors and domains …

Towards real-time predictions using emulators of agent-based models

M Kieu, H Nguyen, JA Ward, N Malleson - Journal of Simulation, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The use of Agent-Based Models (ABMs) to make predictions in real-time is
hindered by their high computation cost and the lack of detailed individual data. This paper …

[HTML][HTML] Data assimilation and agent-based modelling: towards the incorporation of categorical agent parameters

P Ternes, JA Ward, A Heppenstall, V Kumar… - Open Research …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
This paper explores the use of a particle filter—a data assimilation method—to incorporate
real-time data into an agent-based model. We apply the method to a simulation of real …

Coupling an agent-based model and an ensemble Kalman filter for real-time crowd modelling

K Suchak, M Kieu, Y Oswald… - Royal Society Open …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Agent-based modelling has emerged as a powerful tool for modelling systems that are
driven by discrete, heterogeneous individuals and has proven particularly popular in the …