Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) is a powerful technique for simulating real-world systems, including organizations, transportation networks, supply chains, financial markets, war-zones, and ecological environments. These models are populated with artificial agents designed to replicate the behavior of real-world actors such as customers, traders, vehicles, aircrafts, militias, and Agentic AIs.

This workshop will teach you how to build, calibrate, and deploy large-scale agent-based models to solve real-world problems. The workshop is open to participants from industry and academia. Proficiency in programming with Python, C++, Java, or another general-purpose programming language is a prerequisite.

The workshop will be lead by Robert Axtell of George Mason University. Axtell, a student of Nobel Laureate Herbert Simon, is the one of the pioneers of large-scale agent-based modelling. He has been affiliated with the Santa Fe Institute, MIT, Oxford, and the Brookings Institution. Axtell’s agent-based models have been used to allocate workers in Disneyland, reduce tick size in NASDAQ, understand the growth of firms in a large economy, and even figure out why the Anasazi civilisation declined. Other speakers at the workshop include Anil Nelakanti of Amazon, Tarun Rambha of IISc, Parth Shah of ISPP, Vipin Veetil of IIM Kozhikode, and Rakesh Warier of NIT Calicut. These speakers will share their expertise in areas as wide as modeling traffic flows, managing supply-chain disruptions, allocating online advertisement space, and developing novel public-policy solutions.

To know more about agent-based modeling, see the following article in the Harvard Business Review https://hbr.org/2002/03/predicting-the-unpredictable

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We will review your application and respond within four working days. If selected, you will receive a link to complete the registration fee payment. As this is a rolling application process, the application window will close once all seats are filled.

Fee

Rs. 10,000 with three nights' accommodation (twin-sharing) at the Management Development Centre on IIM Kozhikode campus
Rs. 2,000 without accommodation

We are awarding fifteen near-full scholarships generously supported by our partners TreeForest and Nucore.

Prerequisite

The workshop is open to participants from industry and academia. Proficiency in programming with Python, C++, Java, or another general-purpose programming language is a prerequisite.

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Program

20 March

Morning
Why agents?
Robert Axtell, George Mason University
Modeling traffic flows in Bangalore City
Tarun Rambha, Indian Institute of Science

Afternoon
An agent-based model of supply-chain disruptions
Vipin Veetil, IIM Kozhikode
Using agent-based model to allocate online advertisement space
Anil Nelakanti, Amazon

Evening
Agent-based modelling: a Systems Theory perspective
Rakesh Warier, NIT Calicut
Building your first agent-based model
Vipin P Veetil, IIM Kozhikode

21 March

Morning
Large scale agent-based models for business decision-making: Nasdaq, Disneyland, and more
Robert Axtell, George Mason University
Optimizing large-scale agent-based models
Tarun Rambha, Indian Institute of Science

Afternoon
Leveraging Cython for massively accelerating agent-based models
Vipin Veetil, IIM Kozhikode
Leveraging High Performance Computing for ABM
AWS Speaker

Evening
Towards scientific public policy making
Robert Axtell, George Mason University
Parth Shah, Indian School of Public Policy

Chair of the Workshop

VIPIN P VEETIL

Assistant Professor
Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode

Research Profile

Visit the following link to read about the agent-based models built by Vipin Veetil
https://www.vipinveetil.com/abm