<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!DOCTYPE Zthes SYSTEM "http://zthes.z3950.org/schema/zthes-1.0.dtd">  <Zthes><term><termId>106</termId><termName>Agent-based modelling (ABM)</termName><termType>TT</termType><termLanguage>en-EN</termLanguage><termVocabulary>SYMSITES</termVocabulary>	<termStatus>active</termStatus>	<termApproval>approved</termApproval>	<termSortkey>Agent-based modelling (ABM)</termSortkey><termNote label="Source"><![CDATA[ <div class="gs_citr" tabindex="0">WILENSKY, Uri; RAND, William. <em>An introduction to agent-based modeling: modeling natural, social, and engineered complex systems with NetLogo</em>. MIT press, 2015.</div>
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<div class="gs_citr" tabindex="0">Wikipedia contributors. (2025, May 24). Agent-based model. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent-based_model</div> ]]></termNote><termNote label="Definition"><![CDATA[ <p>Agent-based modelling is a computational modeling paradigm and method that enables researchers to to describe how any agent will behave, hence create, analyse, and experiment with models composed of autonomous and heterogeneous agents that interact within an environment, in order to identify the mechanisms that bring about some macroscopic phenomenon of interest.</p>
<p>This technique can be used to model and describe a wide variety of processes, phenomena, and situations, but it is most useful when describing these phenomena as<br />complex systems.</p> ]]></termNote><termNote label="Definition"><![CDATA[ <p>Agent-based modelling is a computational modeling paradigm and method that enables researchers to to describe how any agent will behave, hence create, analyse, and experiment with models composed of autonomous and heterogeneous agents that interact within an environment, in order to identify the mechanisms that bring about some macroscopic phenomenon of interest.</p>
<p>This technique can be used to model and describe a wide variety of processes, phenomena, and situations, but it is most useful when describing these phenomena as<br />complex systems.</p> ]]></termNote><termCreatedDate>Agent-based modelling (ABM)</termCreatedDate></term>  </Zthes>