Agent-based modelling is widely used in social and ecological sciences. For biological processes it is an increasingly used technology. Here we used agent-based modelling to simulate the formation of actin filaments, which is a major part in the cytoskeleton of the cell and plays a role in a number of cell functions. We present in this paper three models with different levels of detail and show...

This paper describes our experience aligning two simulation models of disease progression after biological attacks. The first model is the Incubation-Prodromal-Fulminant (IPF) model, a variation of the Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) epidemiological model, and the second is an agent-based model called BioWar. We run BioWar simulations to see whether the results will, at the population leve...

During emergency scenarios, the large number of possible influences inter se between cognitive and affective states of the individuals involved makes it difficult to analyse their (collective) behaviour. To study the behaviour of collectives of individuals during emergencies, this paper proposes a methodology based on formalisation of empirical transcripts and agent-based simulation, and applie...

This paper presents a multi-agent simulation system, named SimOrg (Simulation of human organization), in which the personality aspect is incorporated in the internal functioning of the agents. The general architecture of the agents has been based on the theory of human personality from Theodore Millon [13]. The presented simulation has been used to simulate working environments, focusing on the...

Self-sustainability is a property of a system; a system is considered to be self-sustainable if it can sustain itself without external support in an observed period of time. If this property is mapped to a human settlement in context of resources (water, energy, food, etc.), it would describe a human settlement which is independent of external resources (like the national electrical grid or a c...

In this paper we investigate the degree to which two social influences, namely imitation and coordinated consumption, effectuate inequalities in the motion picture industry. We develop an agent-based model based on micro movie visitors’ decision-making that generates the observed macro market outcomes. The simulation model makes use of the findings of an empirical survey amongst 1112 cinema vis...

In an idea generation meeting the emotional context-aware is correlated the with participants’ performance. To achieve good results in idea generation sessions it is important that participants maintain a positive emotional state. In this paper we will present an agent-based idea generation meeting using an emotional context-aware model that includes several mechanisms, namely: the analysis and...