ABM

In this note I will give a brief introduction of agent-based modelling (ABM). I was learning ABM from an online tutorial1, in which this method is actually mostly applied in areas of social sciences, for example, economics or sociology. I will introduce the topic with four parts. For the first and second part, we will not talk about agriculture. But at last two parts we will talk about why agriculture experts need agent-based modelling. Despite that the previous section are from other domains, I still think they’re quite interesting examples and then we can see how it can be applied in ecological related topics. ...