SimZombie: a case-study in agent-based simulation construction

Authors:
Matthew Crossley;Martyn Amos
Affiliations:
School of Computing, Mathematics and Digital Technology, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK;School of Computing, Mathematics and Digital Technology, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK
Venue:
KES-AMSTA'11 Proceedings of the 5th KES international conference on Agent and multi-agent systems: technologies and applications
Year:
2011

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Abstract

In this paper we describe a general method for the conversion of an equation-based model to an agent-based simulation. We illustrate the process by converting a well-known recent case-study in epidemiology (zombie infection), and show how we may obtain qualitatively similar results, whilst gaining access to the many benefits of an agent-based implementation.