Multi-level agent-based modeling - A literature survey

Abstract

v2. Ref 102 added. v3-4 Many refs and text added v5-6 bibliographic statistics updated. v7 Change of the name of the paper to reflect what it became, many refs and text added, bibliographic statistics updatedDuring last decade, multi-level agent-based modeling has received significant and dramatically increasing interest. In this article we conduct a comprehensive and structured review of literature on this emerging research domain that aims at extending the classical agent-based modeling paradigm to overcome some of its limitations. We present the main theoretical contributions and applications with an emphasis on social, flow, biological and biomedical models