Agent-based models have been applied successfully in a broad variety of areas, including heuristic search methods, social science models, combat modeling, and supply chains. This flexibility makes them ideal as virtual laboratories and testbeds, particularly in the social sciences where direct experimentation may be infeasible or unethical.
This is often a more natural perspective than the system-level perspective required of other modeling paradigms, and it allows greater flexibility to use agents in novel applications. Basing a model around agents (building an agent-based model) allows the user to build complex models from the bottom up by specifying agent behaviors and the environment within which they operate. He has been working at The AnyLogic Company for more than twenty years and has a deep and extensive knowledge of simulation and AnyLogic.Agents are self-contained objects within a software model that are capable of autonomously interacting with the environment and with other agents. Ilya Grigoryev has been a simulation consultant to several organizations. He has given numerous public training sessions in the U.S., Europe, Africa, and Asia. He is the author of AnyLogic documentation and AnyLogic training courses. Ilya Grigoryev is Head of Training Services at The AnyLogic Company. You can consider this textbook as your first guide for studying AnyLogic and simulation. This book also gives some simulation theory and illustrates different modeling methods. Marketing research (consumer choice model).The core of the book consists of four practical examples, covering all the main software functionality and allowing the users to get to know the basics of modeling and simulation with AnyLogic. This modeling and simulation book can be downloaded as a pdf. The freely supplied software gives readers the ability to follow the steps provided in the tutorials and learn simulation by practice. It contains simulation theory and educational examples for all three model-building methods: agent-based modeling, discrete event modeling and system dynamics.
The book is ideal for studying computer simulation and modeling with the free AnyLogic Personal Learning Edition. This simulation book is designed for use in self-education and in university. This is a practical textbook on AnyLogic simulation software from its developers.