# agent-based
Agent-based models don't solve equations for a whole population at once — instead they give each individual a simple set of rules and let the group-level pattern emerge from thousands of local decisions. That approach explains why this tag brings together such different subjects: Schelling Segregation shows how mild individual preferences about neighbors can produce sharp residential clustering, Disease Spread (SEIR) tracks an infection moving person to person through a population, and Opinion Dynamics models how beliefs shift as agents interact and influence one another. The same bottom-up logic drives Natural Selection, where organisms compete and reproduce under selection pressure, Whale Migration — Agent-Based Navigation, where animals follow individual navigation rules across an ocean, and Financial Market, where independent traders generate collective price behavior.
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Facts about this collection
- 6 agent-based simulations are tagged here, spanning biology, sociology and economics.
- Schelling Segregation is the classic demonstration that mild individual bias can produce strong collective segregation without any agent intending it.
- Disease Spread (SEIR) applies agent-level infection rules to model an epidemic's Susceptible-Exposed-Infected-Recovered stages.
- Financial Market and Opinion Dynamics both show how independent, locally-interacting agents can generate market-wide or society-wide patterns.
Simulations in this topic include Natural Selection, Disease Spread (SEIR), Schelling Segregation, Whale Migration — Agent-Based Navigation, Opinion Dynamics and Financial Market.
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