• Sensemaking of causality in agent-based models 

      Antosz, Patrycja; Szczepanska, Timo; Bouman, Loes; J. Gareth, Polhill; Jager, Wander (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Even though agent-based modelling is seen as committing to a mechanistic, generative type of causation, the methodology allows for representing many other types of causal explanations. Agent-based models are capable of ...
    • What do you want theory for? - A pragmatic analysis of the roles of “theory” in agent-based modelling 

      Antosz, Patrycja; Birks, Dan; Edmonds, Bruce; Heppenstall, Alison; Meyer, Ruth; Polhill, J. Gareth; O'Sullivan, David; Wijermans, Nanda (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      There has been some discussion about agent-based modelling (ABM) and theory, particularly how ABM might facilitate theory building. However, there is confusion about the different ways they could relate and some scepticism ...