70738 20200616135720.0 doi 10.1016/j.simpat.2017.05.006 sideral 99583 ART-2017-99583 eng (orcid)0000-0002-2726-6760 García-Magariño García, Iván Universidad de Zaragoza TABSAOND: A technique for developing agent-based simulation apps and online tools with nondeterministic decisions 2017 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted Agent-based simulators (ABSs) have successfully allowed practitioners to estimate the outcomes of certain input circumstances in several domains. Although some techniques and processes provide hints about the construction of these systems, some aspects have not been discussed yet in the literature. In this context, the current approach presents a technique for developing ABSs. Its focus is to guide practitioners in designing and implementing the decision-making processes of agents in nondeterministic scenarios. As an additional technological innovation, the ABSs are deployed as both mobile apps and online tools. This work illustrates the current approach with two case studies in the fields of (a) health and welfare and (b) tourism. These case studies have also been developed with the most similar technique from the literature for comparing both techniques. The presented technique improved the simulated outcomes in terms of their similarity with the real ones. The obtained ABSs were more efficient and reliable for large amounts of agents (e.g. 10,000 – 400,000 agents). The development time was lower. Both the framework and the implementation of a case study are freely distributed as open-source to facilitate the reproducibility of the experiments and to assist practitioners in applying the current approach. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/T81 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MEC/CAS16-00075 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/TEC2013-50049-EXP info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/UZ/IT6-15 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by-nc-nd http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ 2.092 2017 COMPUTER SCIENCE, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING 21 / 104 = 0.202 2017 Q1 T1 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS 46 / 105 = 0.438 2017 Q2 T2 0.684 2017 Hardware and Architecture 2017 Q1 Software 2017 Q1 Modeling and Simulation 2017 Q2 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/submittedVersion (orcid)0000-0002-9408-1280 Palacios-Navarro, Guillermo Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-4773-4904 Lacuesta, Raquel Universidad de Zaragoza 5008 785 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Ingeniería Electrón.Com. Área Tecnología Electrónica 5007 570 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Informát.Ingenie.Sistms. Área Lenguajes y Sistemas Inf. 77 (2017), 84-107 Simul. Model. Pract. Theory SIMULATION MODELLING PRACTICE AND THEORY 1569-190X 374002 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/70738/files/texto_completo.pdf Preprint 89297 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/70738/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Preprint oai:zaguan.unizar.es:70738 articulos driver 2020-06-16-13:49:12 ARTICLE