Most us surrounding things and situations consist of several individual components. With a simulation to if analysis is divided into its components and the simulation and not a model of the whole one consisting of them uses models of these components, e.g. individual gas atoms become the simulation of the movement of a gas cloud or simulated, one speaks individual vehicles for the simulation of the flow of traffic of a "“microscopic simulation"”. See also: Macro simulation

Micro simulation in the economics and the social sciences

Here in different places Mikrosimulationen are used, whereby it can act under the same term around very different kinds of Simulationen.

Heuristic micro simulation

"… or strategic simulation: It is used mainly in the management. It in addition, mostly acts thereby around Makrosimulationen in the sense of cybernetic automatic control loops, often in proximity of planning games, it can Mikrosimulationen be used. In the traffic research heuristic Mikrosimulationen intensively used, here consists the simulated system of individual road users. Characteristically of the heuristic simulation those is far away-going missing connection to data and the stress of interaction effects between micro units. In the sociology since the 70's-years such Mikrosimulationen is used. In addition, admit became the computer tournaments of Robert Axelrod in the surrounding field of of the play-theoretical research, methods of statistic physics and today above all computer science are beyond that used (multi-agent systems (MAS)).

Economic micro simulation

Within the range of the empirical economic research the range of the "“Policy evaluation simulation"” developed, i.e. from Simulationen in the 50's-years, which try on basis of statistic data to measure the effects from political measures. Since it often concerns distribution effects and nonlinear developments here, Makrosimulationen are here frequently unsuitable. As the simplest method for the statistic micro simulation was established "“static aging"”: One formulates the defaults by the political measure by means of macro time series, selects then person weights in such a manner the fact that the defaults are fulfilled and reads off the effects from other micro variables. Only since the 90's-years slowly methods of the dynamic micro simulation arise. Here individual variables will become into quantitative relations set and these statistically estimated. Example: The probability to become unemployed is an involution function of the education, which industry, which becomes occupation position, the income etc. in the simulation then produced by the so estimated models for other boundary conditions or time intervalls data.

Economic Mikrosimulationen puts the SOEP or the EVS on on representative statistic data like the micro censuses. They contain few interaction effects contrary to the heuristic micro simulation (if necessary between the members of a household).

Economic Mikrosimulationen is used intensively in more recent time by the Federal Ministries (finances, economics, work, health) for its planning.

Articles in category "Micro simulation"

We found here 34 articles.

Related Websites

We found here 5 related websites.

• Introduction to Micro-simulation
  3D animated outputs from the AIMSUN micro-simulation tool ... Road traffic micro-simulation models are computer models where the movements of individual ...


• Micro-Simulation Links
  Here is a list of links to pages on the Web about micro-simulation tools for ... FOSIM - A micro-simulator developed at the Technical University of Delft. ...


• Micro-Simulation Technology
  Micro-Simulation Technology was incorporated in 1985 in New Jersey, USA, by a group of nuclear scientists and software engineers specialized in nuclear ...


• Micro-simulation Tools
  This section describes the current status of the main micro-simulation tools that have been used to model UK road networks. ...


• The Smartest Project: Review of Micro-Simulation Models
  review existing micro-simulation models, so that gaps can be identified ... As for the future use of micro simulation, the same percentage as above applies ...