The Sugarscape ABM

This is a classic agent-based model, developed by Joshua M. Epstein and Robert Axtell (1996). “Sugar” represents resources which are unevenly distributed across a landscape. Individual agents move locally, harvest nearby resources, consume them to survive, and accumulate unequal stores of these resources over time. The model shows how resource competition can emerge from simple, individual rules rather than from a centralized planner.