Abstract

Agent-based systems are one of the most vibrant and important areas of research and development to have emerged in information technology in the 1990s. Simulation is an important category of applications of multi-agent systems in natural and artificial societies. In this tutorial, first I introduce the characters of agent-based simulation models; then discussed the areas of agent-based simulation applications; after that talk about the challenges existed in agent-based simulation and models as well as solutions; at the end of this tutorial apply the above knowledge into reality and study a concrete agent-based simulation model in detail. 1. Introduction of Agent-based simulation Agents can be interpreted as software systems that are aimed at working autonomously in dynamic and uncertain environments [6]. The interrelations between agents and simulation are manifold [2]. Software agents are used to develop “state of the art” simulation systems on the one hand. On the other hand simulation provides a means for

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