Agent-based Modeling

The classes of an agent-based model: agents, events, schedulers and data collectors.

Keywords

agent-based modeling, system dynamics, bptk, bptk-py, python, business prototyping

Agent-based Modeling

What an agent-based model is made of: the agents and the events between them, the schedulers that run them, and the data collectors that record what they did.

Agent	The base class for your agents
Event	How agents talk to each other
DelayedEvent	An event delivered a number of timesteps later
Scheduler	Runs the agents, one after another
Simultaneous Scheduler	Runs them as if they acted at the same instant
DataCollector	Collects aggregate statistics per agent type and state
AgentDataCollector	Collects every individual agent’s properties
CSVDataCollector	Writes the results to CSV files instead of memory