Comparer des méthodes

	Microsimulation multi-agents	Simulation à événements discrets (DES)
Domaine	Simulation	Simulation
Famille	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Année d'origine	1957 (microsimulation); 2000s (hybrid ABMS)	1960s (formalized); modern computational form from 1970s onward
Auteur d'origine	Orcutt, G. H. (microsimulation roots); Bonabeau, E. and others (ABM integration)	Banks, Carson, Nelson & Nicol (textbook lineage); foundational work by Tocher & Conway (1960s)
Type	Hybrid simulation	Stochastic process simulation
Source fondatrice	Birkin, M., & Clarke, M. (2012). The enhancement of spatial microsimulation models using geodemographics. Annals of Regional Science, 49(2), 515–532.	Banks, J., Carson, J.S., Nelson, B.L. & Nicol, D.M. (2010). Discrete-Event System Simulation (5th ed.). Pearson. ISBN: 978-0136062127
Alias	ABMS, Agent-Based Micro-Simulation, Microsimulation with Agent-Based Modeling, Hybrid ABM-Microsimulation	DES, event-driven simulation, Ayrık Olay Simülasyonu (DES)
Apparentées	5	4
Résumé	Agent-based microsimulation (ABMS) merges traditional microsimulation's individual-level statistical tracking with agent-based modeling's behavioral rules and interaction mechanisms. It creates virtual populations of heterogeneous agents who evolve over time according to transition probabilities, adaptive behaviors, and social interactions, producing emergent system-level outcomes from micro-level dynamics.	Discrete-Event Simulation (DES) is a computational modeling paradigm in which the state of a system changes only at a countable sequence of points in time — the events. Between events nothing changes, so the simulation clock jumps directly from one event to the next. Formalized through the foundational textbooks of Banks, Carson, Nelson and Nicol and of Law in the 1960s–2000s, DES has become the standard tool for analyzing queuing systems, healthcare patient flows, manufacturing lines, and logistics networks where entities move through resources over time.