City simulators are generally agent-based simulations with explicit representations for land use and transportation.

A special type of discrete simulation that does not rely on a model with an underlying equation, but can nonetheless be represented formally, is agent-based simulation.

More recently, Ron Sun developed methods for basing agent-based simulation on models of human cognition, known as cognitive social simulation.

JASSS is now the main forum for scientific publications in the field of agent-based social simulation.

Pythagoras offers a unique set of capabilities in the area of agent-based simulations:

The grid is useful to build agent-based simulations including cellular automata or diffusion-based models.

Experimental methods consist of laboratory experiments, numerical simulations, or agent-based simulations.

An original implementation was developed in Ascape, Java software suitable for agent-based social simulation.

Simio software for discrete event, continuous, and agent-based simulation.

ExtendSim simulation environment for discrete event, continuous, discrete-rate and agent-based simulation.