Agent based modeling (ABM) is a bottom-up simulation technique where we analyze a system by its individual agents that interact with each other (
Karami, 2021
).
The benefits of ABM over other modeling techniques can be captured in three statements: (i) ABM captures emergent phenomena; (ii) ABM provides a natural description of a system; and (iii) ABM is flexible (
Bonabeau, 2002
)
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System Dynamics uses a graphical description to structure complex systems of
differential equations and algebraic equations (
Gustafsson, 2017
).
The System Dynamics is a modeling tool that allows to represent and to understand the dynamic behavior of complex systems, presenting the linear and nonlinear relations between the variables (
Ebert et al., 2017
).