Agent-Based Models

• Rules based models, "Nested If...Then...Else on steroids"
• Boundary Conditions

• Use of Conditional Formatting to "see" the agents
• Use of Controls Helps Visualize Variation

• Parallel Thinking and Computing
  • Gauss-Seidel (not conducive to parallel)
  • Jacobi (use old and new copies to parallelize)

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