openalexScientific Reports2026-07-24
ASCENT: a tensor-oriented approach to population-scale agent-based simulation
Imran Mahmood, Sureni Wickramasooriya, Richard M. Bailey, Gregory C. Lanzaro, Anisoara Calinescu, J. Doyne Farmer, et al.
Abstract Agent-based models (ABMs) offer a compelling framework for simulating complex systems but scale poorly with conventional software execution paradigms. When modelling millions of interacting agents with complex lifecycles and spatial dynamics, conventional ABMs encounter…