2020/03/18 by Paul R. Cohen, Cohen, Paul, Tomasz D. Loboda +1
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #Economic Policies and Impacts #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Multiagent Systems (cs.MA) #Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2003.08783
openalex publication_date 2020/03/18 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Redistribution systems iteratively redistribute mass between groups under the control of rules. PRAM is a framework for building redistribution systems. We discuss the relationships between redistribution systems, agent-based systems, compartmental models and Bayesian models. PRAM puts agent-based models on a sound probabilistic footing by reformulating them as redistribution systems. This provides a basis for integrating agent-based and probabilistic models. \pram/ extends the themes of probabilistic relational models and lifted inference to incorporate dynamical models and simulation. We illustrate PRAM with an epidemiological example.