2.4. Practical Approach To Agent-Based Modelling

Representing a real system in all its complexity in order to measure its possible evolutions, or to conceive development solutions that are adapted to it, is one of the challenges of current computer modelling, particularly of agent-based modelling. This approach, which complements classical analytical methods, allows us to incrementally conceive models whose dynamic is the result of interactions between computer representations of the entities in a modelled system (players, institutions and environment, biological or abiotic entities). These models are then used to support a “virtual ” experimental method – making use of simulations – where the resulting dynamics can be studied with all the necessary details, and where interaction with the user is encouraged. This workshop is organised around the GAMA modelling platform, Gis and Agent-Based Modelling Architecture, se