Re: [Swarm-Modelling] Agent based and individual based modeling

[Andy Cleary]

At 03:11 PM 2/9/2004 -0800, you wrote:
> >>>>> "Sk" == Sk Morshed Anwar  writes:
>
> Sk> HI, I am a new member of this group. Could anybody shed some light
> Sk> on the difference between agent based and individual based
> Sk> modeling approaches.
>
> They are really synonyms for the same kind of modelling approach.
> "Individual based" is generally more commonly used in ecology, where
> "agent based" is often found in other fields such as economics,
> and biology.

While that's largely true, I've found ABM to be a subset of IBM... All 
Agents are individuals, but not all individuals have the "agency" that I 
think of as going with ABM.

I have also found that some papers labelled as IBMs are really diffEQ models.

Andy