Agent-Based Modeling

A computational modeling approach that represents a system as a collection of autonomous, heterogeneous agents with specified behavioral rules and local interactions, simulated over time to observe emergent, system‑level patterns that are not readily deducible from aggregate equations alone.

A computational modelling approach that represents social or environmental systems as collections of autonomous, interacting agents whose individual rules of behaviour and local interactions produce emergent, aggregate patterns; used in archaeology and history to test mechanistic hypotheses about how micro-level behaviours can generate macro-level spatial, social, or material outcomes.