Traditional modeling is top-down and tries to get the big picture by looking at the whole system. Agent-based modeling (ABM) flips this view and is bottom-up, starting with each individual person and watching the big pattern grow out of all their little interactions.
Conditions: Analysis begins at the level of individual agents for ABM.; Analysis begins at the level of the entire system for top-down modeling.
Traditional modeling is top-down and tries to get the big picture by looking at the whole system. Agent-based modeling (ABM) flips this view and is bottom-up, starting with each individual person and watching the big pattern grow out of all their little interactions.
Conditions: Analysis begins at the level of individual agents for ABM.; Analysis begins at the level of the entire system for top-down modeling.