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This article proposes a methodology to model and simulate complex systems, based on IRM4MLS, a generic agent-based meta-model able to deal with multi-level systems. This methodology permits the engineering of dynamic multi-level agent-based models, to represent complex systems over several scales and domains of interest. Its goal is to simulate a phenomenon using dynamically the lightest representation to save computer resources without loss of information. This methodology is based on two mechanisms: (1) the activation or deactivation of agents representing different domain parts of the same phenomenon and (2) the aggregation or disaggregation of agents representing the same phenomenon at different scales.
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Soyez, JB., Morvan, G., Dupont, D., Merzouki, R. (2013). A Methodology to Engineer and Validate Dynamic Multi-level Multi-agent Based Simulations. In: Giardini, F., Amblard, F. (eds) Multi-Agent-Based Simulation XIII. MABS 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7838. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38859-0_10
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