The range of technical issues that MABS has and continues to deal with is diverse and extensive, and includes:

Simulation methodologies

• Standards for MABS

• Methodologies and simulation languages for MABS

• Simulation platforms and tools for MABS

• Visualization and analytic tools

• Approaches for large-scale simulations

• Scalability and robustness in MABS

• Provenance and ontology-driven approaches in building MABS simulations

• Design and analysis of MABS simulation experiments

• Uncertainty analysis

Simulation of social and economic behavior 

• Formal and agent models of social behavior

• Cognitive modeling and social simulation

• Game theory and simulation

• Social structure: social networks and simulating organizations

• Simulating social complexity (e.g. structures and norms, social order, emergence of cooperation and coordinated action, self-organization, self-regulation, the micro-macro link)

• Multidirectional dynamics in complex social systems

Applications, e.g.: 

• MABS in governance and policy-making modelling

• MABS in environmental and epidemiological modeling

• Agent-based experimental economics

• Participative-based simulation

• MABS and games