You can check the work of Giuseppe Vizzari from Milan:

http://www.lintar.disco.unimib.it/space/Persone/Dott.+Giuseppe+Vizzari/Giuseppe+Vizzari+%28english%29

He works on agent-based simulations of crowded places, in particular he exploits agents to simulate people behaviours.

Hope this helps,

Giacomo

You can find them on this website: http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/models/index.cgi

Take a look at the publications at the ESSA conference: http://www.essa2013.org

Google says yes.. just search software agents and social simulations and you will get a ton of hits including papers and project home pages.

Wikipedia claims Auer, Klaus; Norris, Tim (2001). ""ArrierosAlife" a Multi-Agent Approach Simulating the Evolution of a Social System: Modeling the Emergence of Social Networks with "Ascape"". Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 4 (1). is one of the earlier ones.

Regarless of whether that is true or not, it's safe to claim the answer is there are many examples extending over a decade...the Wikipedia article refers to several publications.

Yo can use netlogo, repast or swarm

As Arkadiusz suggested, NetLogo and its many Sample Models is a good starting point.

Publications of agent-based models in the context of social simulation can be found for example in Journal of Artificial Socienties and Social Simulation (JASSS):

http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS.html

Search JASSS for term "agent-based":

http://www.googlesyndicatedsearch.com/u/jasss?q=agent-based+site%3Ajasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk+-inurl%3Aindex_by_issue+-inurl%3Acurrent+-inurl%3Acontents+-inurl%3Acitation+-filetype%3Apdf&x=0&y=0

Soo Ling Lim has modelled interactions of users and developers in App Stores with her AppEco model - see her publications here: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Soo_Ling_Lim/publications/

Take a look at the publications at the PADABS 2013 conference. The 1st Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Agent-Based Simulations.

http://www.padabs.org/

Have also a good look at the great book "Complex adaptive Systems" by Miller and Page for a thorough discussion on agent-based modeling and their application to social dynamics (mostly, but among others). It also contains plenty of useful references to literature and software platforms (NetLogo being the most useful for fast prototyping and throughput).

Please take a look at this http://teamcore.usc.edu/projects/MAS/escapes.html#ESCAPE

Multi agent simulation is also used in financial study, it is called "an artificial financial market model". For examples, http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=30551 , http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6611689

I agree that JASSS articles & book reviews will be an excellent source of information. You could also look at the following (thick) volume published this year : B. Edmonds and R. Meyer (eds.). Simulating Social Complexity. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg.

If books are relevant as well, this could also be a source:

Flaminio Squazzoni (2012): Agent-Based Computational Sociology, Wiley.

see: http://www.eco.unibs.it/computationalsociology/

Just go to the NetLogo model library, and you can find loads of examples in social science. (http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/models/)

There must be examples in other multi-agent systems modeling frameworks like Repast Simphony, MASON, JADE, etc. as well.

There are several examples in which agents have been used in social simulations. very A good start is:

http://www.lanl.gov/programs/nisac/episims.shtml

It would help if you could be a bit more specific on the type of social simulation you have in mind.

You may want to have a look at my PhD thesis and the synopsis published in IS frontiers. Multi Agent-based simulation of knowledge transfer.

Another place to look is at the Multi-Agent-Based Simulation workshop series (http://www.pcs.usp.br/~mabs/), the proceedings of which are published as part of the LNCS series by Springer. A large proportion of the simulations presented at the workshop are on social simulation.

You can find some examples looking for publications of Nancy Ruiz.

Take a look at the INKA project (in German but with some publications in English) at http://www2.informatik.hu-berlin.de/ki/inka/index.html

I have a particular interest in advocating the use of UML as a standard modeling language in social science, particular for models of business dynamics or process, to help with the consolidation and development of theory and knowledge through simulation. Feel fee to contact me if you are interested.

Intelligent Systems, 2009.

An Agent-Based Simulation Model for Occupant Evacuation under Fire Conditions

Agent-based evacuation model of large public buildings under fire conditions

http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~rlr/CSCS530/uploads/Main/Shi.pdf

Yes, our group is doing a lot of work in integrating the Belief-Desire-Intention framework for modelling rational agents, into agent-based social simulations. This was driven by the need for better representation of human behaviours in emergency situations for disaster management.

The work was done in partnership with the emergency services and fire authority here in Melbourne, Australia, and has had a lot of positive response from them. Two recent projects on bushfire evacuation and urban flooding are described here along with relevant publications: https://sites.google.com/site/rmitagents/projects/nccarf. A paper on the flooding simulation is in the works.

In current work, we have developed a general purpose open source BDI plugin for Repast, that we will release by Christmas. We have also developed a similar framework to allow BDI integration with the popular MATSim traffic simulator that we we release by March next year.

I'd be happy to provide more details if you are interested.

Best regards,

any automated E - application could be suitable for what you looking for e.g. E- learning ,E- commerce , E- government etc by doing automated classification and profiling and interaction for clients

You can also find many examples of social simulation using agent-based models in http://www.openabm.org/

Here you can find a list of publications about social simulations using network models

http://www.sociopatterns.org/publications/

I think that the proceedings of MABS workshops (cited by EMMA Norling) is definitely the best source for finding examples of agents being used for social simulation. On the one hand by the large set of examples, and on the other hand by their scientific level. Indeed the AAMAS conference (MABS is a workshop organized as an AAMAS workshop) is considered the best conference about agents and multiagent systems.

You may look at the ABIR simulator http://www.polisci.upenn.edu/ps-i/Simulation%20Software.htm

also there is a "Dream Valley Simulator" at IIASA http://www.iiasa.ac.at/web/home/research/researchProjects/Dream-Valley.en.html

Have you seen the article in attachment ? It is about many issues related to simulation and agent based-simulations.

There is lot work on this topic done by the researchers in Argonne National Labs. There is free and open source tool available to use . It called Repast agent-based modeling suite (http://repast.sourceforge.net). You can directly connect to Michael North (http://www.dis.anl.gov/staff/north.html), who has authored a book as well (Managing Business Complexity: Discovering Strategic Solutions with Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation). Good luck

You may find interesting works, and especially in chapter 8, in the book :

N. Gilbert and K.G. Troitzsch, "Simulation for the Social Scientist", Open University Press, 2005.

Hello Peer-Olaf,

Your question sounds strange given the experience you already have on the domain. Maybe you could scan the open access "Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulations" which is more or less devoted to this topic since a long time now.

Sincerely,

Jean

You can check the work of Giuseppe Vizzari from Milan:

http://www.lintar.disco.unimib.it/space/Persone/Dott.+Giuseppe+Vizzari/Giuseppe+Vizzari+%28english%29

He works on agent-based simulations of crowded places, in particular he exploits agents to simulate people behaviours.

Hope this helps,

Giacomo

Los Alamos National Laboratory has developed a highly detailed social interaction model. This effort first focused on transportation (TransSim) and building on this effort infectious disease transmission (EpiSIms). Check with LANL.gov for my more information.

Best Rregards,

Fred Leykam

I'm not entirely sure what you are looking for, but Netlogo (http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/) is an easy-to-use software that comes with lots of examples. I did not use it for my own work, but I found it particularly useful for teaching.

As kindly suggested by other discussant, at CSAI-DISCo at University of Milano-Bicocca we are working on application of MAS-based modeling to simulate relevant dynamics in crowds (systems of pedestrians sharing a limited spatial resource).

Don't hesitate contacting me (or Giuseppe Vizzari, or Stefania Bandini) for details. A useful reference for you may be

http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/4/4.html

and

Bandini, S., Manzoni, S.L., & Vizzari, G. (2009). Crowd Behaviour Modeling: From Cellular Automata to Multi-Agent Systems. Bookchapter in A.M. Uhrmacher, & D. Weyns (editors), Multi-Agent Systems: Simulation and Applications. CRC press.

Undoubtedly, many of the above referents can write much more sophisticated software than can I - one person working alone with the support of my wife and no one else. Nevertheless, if you can handle the unsophisticated interface and minimal complexity, I have done a little something in "Energy in a Mark II Economy" at http://dematerialism.net/Mark-II-Economy.html using two MS-Excel spreadsheets. I thought I had been pretty clever in implementing Newton's method in Excel to solve non-linear equations. I built a Jacobian matrix iteratively with simple Excel functions.

some recent ABM simulations on a country-wide scale:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/46486681_Large_Scale_Daily_Contacts_and_Mobility_Model_-_an_Individual-Based_Countrywide_Simulation_Study_for_Poland

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/223604863_Influenza_epidemic_spread_simulation_for_Poland__a_large_scale_individual_based_model_study

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/51109897_Reconstructing_the_20032004_H3N2_influenza_epidemic_in_Switzerland_with_a_spatially_explicit_individual-based_model

Article Large Scale Daily Contacts and Mobility Model - an Individua...

Article Influenza epidemic spread simulation for Poland — a large sc...

Article Reconstructing the 2003/2004 H3N2 influenza epidemic in Swit...

We use software agents for simulation of viral effects in Facebook. Please see the following link for our article: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235907490_An_Agent-Based_Simulation_of_Viral_Marketing_Effects_in_Social_Networks

Article An Agent-Based Simulation of Viral Marketing Effects in Soci...

Many thanks for all your responses. It is good to see that I am not alone with my ideas on using engineering methods (software agents) to build agent-based social simulation models :-).

I am currently editing a JASSS Special Section on this topic "Engineering Agent-Based Social Simulations". I reckon that some of you are interested in submitting a paper. The submission deadline is the 31 March 2014.

CfP: http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~pos/docs/pos-CfP-JASSS_EngineeringABSS.pdf

p.s. You might also be interested in the following discussion: "Are there any design patterns that are commonly used in non-player character design in social simulation games?"

URL: https://www.researchgate.net/post/Are_there_any_design_patterns_that_are_commonly_used_in_non-player_character_design_in_social_simulation_games

Take a look at Simulating Social Complexity by Bruce Edmonds and Ruth Meyer. Springer. 2013.

The link of the presentation is not working. Can you explain what you are looking?

Thanks again to all who replied so far!

@ Bernado: Just got the book :-).

@ Tina: Sorry - I have fixed the link now. The example is on p21.

Last week I gave another presentation which has a description of the kind of agent I am looking for on p9. http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~pos/bemoossig/slides/BEMooSSIG-Siebers2014-01-16.pdf

there is a recent book on the subject which has all the landmarks to be a classic textbook soon. And there is a chapter on the "Networks in Agent-Based Social Simulation".

Agent-based models of geographical systems, edited by Alison J. Heppenstall, Andrew T. Crooks, Linda M. See and Michael Batty, Dordrecht/Heidelberg/London/New York, Springer, 2012, £179.99, 759 pp., (hardcover), ISBN 978-90-481-8926-7

What you call "object" in a MAS would be represented as part of the Environment. You are welcome to read my thesis where I deal with environment programming in MAS. http://www.iiia.csic.es/~andres/pubs/thesis_Garcia-Camino.pdf

@ Andres: Looks like I found my reading for the next week end ;-). Thanks!

Agent-based simulation modelling in context of transport systems: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262535347_Agent-based_Simulation_Testbed_for_On-demand_Transport_Services

Conference Paper Agent-based Simulation Testbed for On-demand Transport Services

Customer Behavior in Trading Processes: A Simulation Based Approach

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259897403_Customer_Behavior_in_Trading_Processes_A_Simulation_Based_Approach?ev=prf_pub

Agent-based simulations in financial systems

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259895060_Tobin_tax_introduction_and_risk_analysis_in_the_Java_simulation?ev=prf_pub

Conference Paper Customer Behavior in Trading Processes: A Simulation Based Approach

Conference Paper Tobin tax introduction and risk analysis in the Java simulation

I, in turn, have been looking for detailed MICROECONOMIC models that have suggestions on how to model MARKETS (labor, land and goods). I have found some, but the majority of the literature is on MACROECONOMIC models.