Introduction
Agent-based models (ABMs) range from purely theoretical exercises focussing on the patterns in the dynamics of interaction processes to modelling frameworks which are oriented closely at the replication of empirical cases. Advocates of the “Keep it descriptive, stupid!” (KIDS) approach openly recommend building models as empirically accurate as possible, they want to understand social processes from the bottom up.
Parts of this chapter have been published earlier in Deichsel and Pyka (2009) and Deichsel (2011).
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Pyka, A., Deichsel, S. (2013). Cutting Back Models and Simulations. In: Tolk, A. (eds) Ontology, Epistemology, and Teleology for Modeling and Simulation. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 44. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31140-6_7
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