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=== Commercial applications ===
Agent-based models have been used since the mid-1990s to solve a variety of business and technology problems. Examples of applications include:
* [[supply chain optimization]] and [[logistics]];
* modeling of [[consumer behavior]], including [[word of mouth]] and [[social network]] effects;
* [[distributed computing]];
* [[workforce management]];
* [[traffic management]]; and
* [[Investment management|portfolio management]].
In these and other applications, the system of interest is simulated by capturing the behavior of individual agents and their interconnections. Agent-based modeling tools can be used to test how changes in individual behaviors will affect the overall, emergent system behavior.