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, ndimensional cubes and landscape visualization techniques. A final section offers some theory underlying visualization of complex systems models with emphasis on mappings to non-equilibrium systems; conserved quantities and their flows; identifying order parameters and control parameters; and the presentation of phase transitions.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: WSC
• Authors: Stephen M. Guerin
• Keywords: Current Metaphors, Landscape Visualization Techniques, Modeling And Simulation, Theory Underlying Visualization, WSC 2004