Monday, February 04, 2013

Explaining Agents within SimCity

If you are looking for a simple way of explaining what agent-based modeling is the following tweet and link by Ed Manley might help.


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Check out also the slides from a talk given at GDC2012 : http://www.andrewwillmott.com/talks/inside-glassbox

Ken said...

Interesting that agents are defined as that which conveys a resource. While I would chock that up to systems in most cases. I consider systems as conveying or producing a good or service (when acted upon) and agents as having, well, agency to act on systems to produce the good or service.