This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th International Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation XXVI, MABS 2025, held in Detroit, MI, USA, on May 19, 2025.
The 12 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 20 submissions. They are organized in topical sections as follows: Conceptual and AI-assisted modeling; Public policy and institutions; Markets and engineered systems; and Methods and foundations.
.- Conceptual and AI-assisted modeling.
.- Insects and Agents: Extending the Metaphor (#1).
.- Approximating Human Strategic Reasoning with LLM-Enhanced Recursive Reasoners Leveraging Multi-agent Hypergames (#5).
.- Automatic generation of ABM Narratives using Simulation Traces and LLM (#6).
.- Public policy and institutions.
.- Agent-Based Modelling for Public Social Service Distribution (#4).
.- Using Agent-Based Social Simulations to Inform Organ Donation Policymaking: Adopting the Spanish Approach in Sweden (#10).
.- An Agent-Based Model of Administrative Corruption in Hierarchical Organisations (#8).
.- Assessing the impact of crisis cell decisions during flash flood (#3).
.- Markets and engineered systems.
.- Shifting Power: Leveraging LLMs to Simulate Human Aversion in ABMs of Bilateral Financial Exchanges, A bond market study (#9).
.- MODIFLY: A Scalable End-to-end Multi-Agent Simulation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (#18).
.- Methods and foundations.
.- MultiRepast4py: A Framework for Agent-Based Simulations on Multilayer Networks (#17).
.- Adjustable Attribute Matching in Digital Similars of Populations #16).
.- Use of Tags and Group Selection to Engender Cooperation in n-player Snowdrift Game (#15).
