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	การสร้างแบบจำลองเชิงเอเจนต์ (ABM)	การวิเคราะห์เส้นทางต้นทุนต่ำสุด / การวิเคราะห์ระยะทางต้นทุน
สาขาวิชา	การจำลอง	การวิเคราะห์เชิงพื้นที่
ตระกูล	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
ปีกำเนิด	1970s–1990s (formalized as a field)	1994
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Thomas Schelling and Robert Axelrod (foundational contributions, 1970s–1990s)	Edsger Dijkstra (shortest path); GIS cost-surface adaptation
ประเภท	Computational simulation method	Raster cost-surface routing
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Axelrod, R. (1997). The Complexity of Cooperation: Agent-Based Models of Competition and Collaboration. Princeton University Press.	Dijkstra, E. W. (1959). A note on two problems in connexion with graphs. Numerische Mathematik, 1(1), 269–271.
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	ABM, Ajan Tabanlı Modelleme (ABM), multi-agent simulation, individual-based modeling	cost-distance analysis, accumulated cost surface, least-cost corridor, en düşük maliyetli yol
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	5	3
สรุป	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.	Least-cost path analysis finds the route between two locations that minimizes accumulated travel cost across a landscape, rather than minimizing straight-line distance. By encoding terrain, slope, land cover, and other frictions into a cost surface and accumulating cost outward from a source, it identifies optimal corridors for roads, pipelines, trails, power lines, and wildlife movement — a core raster-GIS technique built on Dijkstra's shortest-path logic.