The Early History of Agent-Based Modeling

摘要

There are many publications which explain ABM, when they can be used, how to build and analyze them, potential research opportunities, as well as many applications. However, these publications often do not go into much depth about the early history that led to ABM's emergence. Therefore, it is worthwhile to rediscover the diverse origins of ABM to provide a clearer understanding and to provide new insightful views into the past, present, and future of ABM. In this paper, the development of ABM is examined from the fields of Computers, Chaos, Complexity, Cybernetics, Cellular Automata, and Complex Adaptive Systems.