Swarm (simulation)

<h2 id="applications">Applications</h2>
<h3>Scientific applications</h3>
<p>Agent-based modeling seeks to replicate these complexities and adaptations in computational environments where these interactive <a href="/facts/Emergent_behavior/gLAd6wda">emergent behaviors</a> can be analyzed multi-dimensionally. By defining and assigning agencies reflective of prescribed behaviors, known or estimated, to active software agents in a <a href="/facts/Computer_simulation/Re6o8vzN">computer simulation</a>, scientists can approximate experimental results not possible in natural temporal frameworks.
</p><p>Swarm and other agent-based modeling platforms afford scientists the opportunity to conduct and <a href="/facts/Scientific_visualization/p0yPc1X5">visualize</a> experiments in these synthetic macro and microenvironments for testing scientific theories, natural data sets, and other analyses while free of pressing constraints like time, volume, hazards, or many other parameters.
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<h3>Commercial applications</h3>
<p>Agent-based models have been used since the mid-1990s to solve a variety of business and technology problems. Examples of applications include:
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<ul><li><a href="/facts/Supply_chain_optimization/gSpJdjIs">supply chain optimization</a> and <a href="/facts/Logistics/0Hr2w55W">logistics</a>;</li>
<li>modeling of <a href="/facts/Consumer_behavior/6dly1pUV">consumer behavior</a>, including <a href="/facts/Word_of_mouth/8KmsyB4g">word of mouth</a> and <a href="/facts/Social_network/kQg6aEVf">social network</a> effects;</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Distributed_computing/o5nyhqTF">distributed computing</a>;</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Workforce_management/askcU7yH">workforce management</a>;</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Traffic_management/o4T3RRtj">traffic management</a>; and</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Investment_management/DqdgDv2m">portfolio management</a>.</li></ul>
<p>In these and other applications, the system of interest is simulated by capturing the behavior of individual agents and their interconnections. Agent-based modeling tools can be used to test how changes in individual behaviors will affect the overall, emergent system behavior.
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Agent-based_social_simulation/S7bng8b7">Agent-based social simulation</a></li>
<li>Repast</li>
<li><a href="/facts/NetLogo/3pzyYsKH">NetLogo</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Sugarscape/lla5aBXu">Sugarscape</a></li>
<li><a href="https://code.google.com/p/gama-platform/">GAMA</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://www.swarm.org/">Swarm Homepage</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Swarm <a href="http://www.swarm.org/wiki/Swarm_main_page" target="_blank">http://www.swarm.org/wiki/Swarm_main_page</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>download Software main page downloads <a href="http://www.swarm.org/wiki/Swarm:_software_main_page" target="_blank">http://www.swarm.org/wiki/Swarm:_software_main_page</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>GNU General Public License <a href="https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html" target="_blank">https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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