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	Simulazione di sistemi a eventi discreti	Modellazione basata su agenti (ABM)
Campo	Simulazione	Simulazione
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1960s (formalised in literature through the 1980s–2000s)	1970s–1990s (formalized as a field)
Ideatore	Kelton, Law & Sadowski (formalised methodology); SIMSCRIPT (Markowitz et al., 1963) and GPSS (Gordon, 1961) were pioneering tools	Thomas Schelling and Robert Axelrod (foundational contributions, 1970s–1990s)
Tipo	Stochastic process simulation	Computational simulation method
Fonte seminale	Kelton, W.D., Sadowski, R.P. & Zupick, N.B. (2014). Simulation with Arena (6th ed.). McGraw-Hill. ISBN: 978-0073401317	Axelrod, R. (1997). The Complexity of Cooperation: Agent-Based Models of Competition and Collaboration. Princeton University Press.
Alias	DES, discrete event simulation, Kesikli Sistem Simülasyonu (Arena / AnyLogic tarzı)	ABM, Ajan Tabanlı Modelleme (ABM), multi-agent simulation, individual-based modeling
Correlati	4	5
Sintesi	Discrete-event system simulation (DES) is a computational modelling technique in which the state of a system changes only at discrete points in time — called events — such as a customer arriving, a machine starting, or a job completing. Formalised through foundational texts by Kelton, Sadowski, and Zupick (2014) and Law (2015), DES represents processes as networks of resources, queues, and activities, allowing analysts to test capacity and policy changes on a virtual model before touching the real system.	Agent-based modeling (ABM) is a computational simulation method, formalized through the work of Thomas Schelling and Robert Axelrod in the 1970s–1990s, that simulates the behavior of complex systems by specifying and running autonomous agents — individuals, firms, cells, or any bounded entity — whose local interactions with each other and with their environment collectively produce global, system-level patterns that could not be predicted from any single agent's rules alone.