Concept model of labor potential reproduction at the municipal level: an agent-based approach

The development of a concept model is a critical step in agent-based modeling of socio-economic systems which helps define and justify the “ideological framework” of the future simulation model. The purpose for the research is to present and justify the conceptual model of labor potential reproduction at the municipal level using the agent-based approach of simulation. During model development we also reveal the role of conceptualization at simulation stages, analyze the nature of concepts such as “model concept” and “concept model», and show the purpose and content of developing the concept model. The article briefly describes and explains the concept of a computer agent-based model, describes types of agents, their characteristics and behavior. The author presents a general concept scheme labor potential reproduction, describes the structure of an agent-based model which, according to the author, should correspond to a three-stage structure of the reproduction process...