Pipelines are one of the most important tools for natural gas transportation. To avoid
accidents caused by local cracks in the pipeline, it is necessary to develop a model that can …

This open access book presents a ground-breaking approach to develo** micro-
foundations for demography and migration studies. It offers a unique and novel methodology …

Simulation experiments are typically conducted repeatedly during the model development
process, for example, to revalidate if a behavioral property still holds after several model …

Migration as an individual behaviour as well as a macro-level phenomenon happens as part
of hugely complex social systems. Understanding migration and its consequences therefore …

In agent-based modeling and simulation, discrete-time methods prevail. While there is a
need to cover the agents' dynamics in continuous time, commonly used agent-based …

Recent years have seen large changes to research practices within psychology and a
variety of other empirical fields in response to the discovery (or rediscovery) of the …

In agent-based simulation methods and applications, discrete timestep approaches prevail.
To support continuous-time agent-based simulation, we analyze how methods for simulating …

Human migration is uncertain and complex, and some of its distinct features, such as
migration routes, can emerge and change very rapidly. Agency of various actors is one key …

Social simulation studies are complex. They typically combine various data sources and
hypotheses about the system's mechanisms that are integrated by intertwined processes of …

Population-based CTMC models can generally be executed efficiently with stochastic
simulation algorithms (SSAs). However, the heterogeneity in agent-based models poses a …