Results of EPSRC Review
Unfortunately the panel considered a CCP in agent based modelling to be a low priority for EPSRC to support at this time. (Details and feedback from EPSRC)
This does not mark the end of CCP_ABM. We shall be exploring other sources of funding and any input from the community will be well received.
Introduction
There are many applications of agent based technology in the mathematical, biological, physical and social scientific communities. Multi-agent systems are very complex applications to program, implement and optimise for large populations of agents. The optimisation of agent interactions and the management of initial data and outputs for large scale simulations are but two areas that need research and development efforts.
There are clearly many areas within agent based methods that might benefit from such activity: serial and parallel implementation of agent based applications, verification and validation of agent based models, standards for the exchange of agent based models to name a few.
EPSRC Call for Statements of Need by CCPs
Collaborative Computational Projects bring together the major UK groups in a given field of computational research to tackle large-scale scientific software development projects, maintenance, distribution, training and user support.
The purpose of this call is to assess which scientific areas are of highest priority to include within the EPSRC supported portfolio of CCPs, and the level of support required by these CCPs. A statement of need is required for all Collaborative Computational Projects that the community would like EPSRC to support, regardless of whether or not they currently have funding from EPSRC.
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You can give your opinion and comment on the needs of a UK Agent-based Community and review the Statement of Needs document.
Recent Comments:
This call has my full support. In my field, financial economics, our traditional models have been found wanting. We need ...
So, I would like to stat that the use of Agent-Based software is an increasing trend. Nowadays, the tasks become ...
It is a very good and necessary initiative. We are missing communication between different communities using agents and could benefit ...
It would be very helpful to form an ABM community to enable broader exchange of ideas and share experience gained ...