Formal specification terminology for demographic agent-based models of fixed-step single-clocked simulations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2308.13081v3
• Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2023 14:05:12 GMT
• Title: Formal specification terminology for demographic agent-based models of fixed-step single-clocked simulations
• Authors: Atiyah Elsheikh
• Abstract summary: This document presents adequate formal terminology for the mathematical specification of a subset of Agent Based Models (ABMs) The proposed terminology further improves the model understanding and can act as a stand-alone protocol for the specification.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: This document presents adequate formal terminology for the mathematical specification of a subset of Agent Based Models (ABMs) in the field of Demography. The simulation of the targeted ABMs follows a fixedstep single-clocked pattern. The proposed terminology further improves the model understanding and can act as a stand-alone protocol for the specification and optionally the documentation of a significant set of (demographic) ABMs. Nevertheless, it is imaginable the this terminology can serve as an inspiring basis for further improvement to the largely-informal widely-used model documentation and communication O.D.D. protocol [Grimm and et al., 2020, Amouroux et al., 2010] to reduce many sources of ambiguity which hinder model replications by other modelers. A published demographic model documentation, largely simplified version of the Lone Parent Model [Gostoli and Silverman, 2020] is separately published in [Elsheikh, 2023c] as illustration for the formal terminology presented here. The model was implemented in the Julia language [Elsheikh, 2023b] based on the Agents.jl julia package [Datseris et al., 2022].

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