D -- Agent Based Economic Modeling

Agent Based Economic Modeling Technology Partnership Opportunity Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, is developing an agent based microsimulation tool that models the dynamic interdependencies between infrastructures and the economy. The agents are small pieces of computer code that model households, manufacturing firms, industries, commodities, material inputs, transportation, banking, and similar components of an economy. All the agents can be customized to a particular economic problem and geospatially plotted. The unique capability of an agent microsimulation of a user-defined economy has high commercial potential. The generic design of the tool allows the user to quickly customize a problem, study dynamic behavior, and subsequently model corrective action. The architecture has been designed with this flexibility. Sandia is making the agent microsimulation tool available to companies interested in partnering with Sandia to further develop the technology to the next release version via cooperative research and development agreements. For further information, please respond by mail or fax to Colleen Kearney by September 7, 2004 at: Sandia National Laboratories, MS 0762, PO Box 5800, Albuquerque, NM 87185-0762. Fax: 505-844-8011. Please indicate the date and title of the FBO notice and the type of partnering agreement your company would be most interested in entering into.