Social Simulation

A Role-Based Multi-Agent Model for Climate Adaptation Deliberation Across Living Labs

Climate adaptation decisions involve heterogeneous stakeholders, partial information, and institutional constraints. This paper presents a role-based Multi-Agent Computer Model (MACM) to simulate climate adaptation deliberation across Living Labs. …

From Signals to Decisions: Characterising Political Decision Dynamics in Agent-Based Policy Models

This paper investigates how political decisions emerge from complex, multi-actor governance environments using an agent-based modelling (ABM) framework. Building on a multi-layered urban climate governance model developed for the municipality of …

Parcel Locker Uptake under Social Influence and Operational Constraints: The Thessaloniki Case

Innovations in last-mile delivery, such as shared parcel lockers (PLs), promise more sustainable urban logistics, but realised benefits depend not only on consumer preferences but also on infrastructure and operating rules. This study develops an …

LLM-Enabled Social Agents

Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed agent-agent and human-agent interaction by enabling software, physical, and simulation agents to communicate and deliberate through natural language. Yet fluent language use does not by itself yield …

A Multi-Level Agent-Based Architecture for Climate Governance Integrating Cognitive and Institutional Dynamics

Climate governance processes involve complex interactions between heterogeneous citizens, advocacy groups, media actors, and political decision-makers. While agent-based models (ABMs) have been widely used to study environmental policy and …

Towards an LLM-powered Social Digital Twinning Platform

We present Social Digital Twinner, an innovative social simulation tool for exploring plausible effects of what-if scenarios in complex adaptive social systems. The architecture is composed of three seamlessly integrated parts: a data infrastructure …

Editorial Note

Agent-Based Exploration of Recommendation Systems in Misinformation Propagation

This study uses agent-based modeling to examine the impact of various recommendation algorithms on the propagation of misinformation on online social networks. We simulate a synthetic environment consisting of heterogeneous agents, including regular …

Large Language Models for Agent-Based Modelling: Current and Possible Uses Across the Modelling Cycle

The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) with increasingly sophisticated natural language understanding and generative capabilities has sparked interest in the Agent-based Modelling (ABM) community. With their ability to summarize, generate, …

Towards an ABM on Proactive Community Adaptation for Climate Change

We present an agent-based model (ABM) simulating proactive community adaptation to climate change in an urban context. The model is applied to Bergen, Norway, represented as a complex socio-ecological system. It integrates multiple agent types: …