When considering process systems as socio-technical systems there is a need for computer models that can describe their full complexity. The Agent Based Model (ABM) paradigm promises to offer new modelling methods and tools that can complement the well established Computer Aided Process Engineering (CAPE) approaches. In this paper guidelines for the application of ABM are discussed and the suit...

We review agent-based models (ABM) of human migration with respect to their decision-making rules. The most prominent behavioural theories used as decision rules are the random utility theory, as implemented in the discrete choice model, and the theory of planned behaviour. We identify the critical choices that must be made in developing an ABM, namely the modelling of decision processes and so...

Adult human bone marrow (ABM) is an important source of hematopoietic stem cells for transplantation in the treatment of malignant and nonmalignant diseases. However, in contrast to the recent progress that has been achieved with umbilical cord blood, methods to expand ABM stem cells for therapeutic applications have been disappointing. In this study, we describe a novel culture method that use...

The survival and growth of the banking industry, on the one hand, requires the trust and satisfaction of individuals in the community, on the other hand, requires financial health. In this research, we seek to evaluate the impact of activity-based management on indices of banking health in the banking system of IR Iran. The activity-based management tools examined in this study are activity-bas...

We present an agent-based model (ABM) to simulate a hepatic inflammatory response (HIR) in a mouse infected by Salmonella that sometimes progressed to problematic proportions, known as "sepsis". Based on over 200 published studies, this ABM describes interactions among 21 cells or cytokines and incorporates 226 experimental data sets and/or data estimates from those reports to simulate a mouse ...

BACKGROUND A practical and ethical challenge in advance care planning research is controlling and intervening on human behavior. Additionally, observing dynamic changes in advance care planning (ACP) behavior proves difficult, though tracking changes over time is important for intervention development. Agent-based modeling (ABM) allows researchers to integrate complex behavioral data about adva...

This paper studies the interaction between cost accounting systems and pricing decisions in a setting where a monopolist sells a base product and related support services to customers whose preference for support services is known only to them. The paper considers two pricing mechanisms–Activity-Based Pricing (ABP) and traditional pricing, and two cost-accounting systems–Activity-Based Costing ...

Agent-based modeling (ABM) has been successfully used, since its emergence in the 1990s, to model and simulate dynamics at work complex socio-environmental systems, many domains applications where interactions between people their environments give rise emergent phenomena that are difficult study otherwise (urban planning, land-use change, adaptation environmental changes, biodiversity protecti...

Agent Based Modelling (ABM), a promising scientific toolset, has received criticism from some, in part, due to a claimed lack of scientific rigour, especially in the communication of its methods and results. To test the veracity of these claims, we conduct a structured analysis of over 900 scientific objects (figures, tables, or equations) that arose from 128 ABM papers published in the Journal...

Model validation is one of the major challenges of social simulations. In particular, experimentation is not practical when modeling societies, which makes model validation inherently difficult. However, one strength of an Agent-Based Model (ABM) is its implementation of a theory of behavior for low-level agents from which higher-level behavior emerges. Our ABM of societies is based on low-leve...