I’d say the key question is whether individual behaviour and interactions actually drive the outcome you’re trying to understand. If the problem involves people making different decisions, influencing each other, adapting to their environment, or producing unexpected “bottom-up” effects, then…

Rhoda, I think the key question is not “Can we use an Agent-Based Model?” but rather “What question can an ABM answer that a simpler method cannot answer adequately?”For me, an ABM becomes justified when individual heterogeneity, interactions, adaptation, networks,…

Hello everyone, and thank you Mwende for the warm welcome to this group.My name is Charles Anyama, Founding Executive Director of Purpose Rwanda, a peer-led addiction recovery and prevention organization in Kigali. I have not formally used Agent-Based Modelling before,…

One of the most significant real-world problems across Africa that could benefit from Agent-Based Modelling (ABM) is the growing challenge of urban youth vulnerability and social inequality in rapidly expanding cities. Across the continent, urbanization is accelerating at a pace…

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What real-world problem in our work could benefit most from agent-based modelling, and what data, assumptions, and stakeholder inputs would we need to make such a model useful and credible?

What real-world problem in our work could benefit most from agent-based modelling, and what data, assumptions, and stakeholder inputs would we need to make such a model useful and credible?

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