PEEKING INTO THE BLACK BOX : SOME ART AND SCIENCE TO VISUALIZING AGENT-BASED MODELS

This paper explores current metaphors for visualizing agent-based models. Metaphors include grid, network, n-dimensional cubes and landscape visualization techniques. A final section offers some theory underlying visualization of complex systems models with emphasis on mappings to nonequilibrium systems; conserved quantities and their flows; identifying order parameters and control parameters; and the presentation of phase transitions.

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