ArticleJournal of artificial societies and social simulation : JASSS2020
Leveraging Modularity During Replication of High-Fidelity Models: Lessons from Replicating an Agent-Based Model for HIV Prevention.
Article in Journal of artificial societies and social simulation : JASSS, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
22 citing papers in PubMed.
- Validation is the central challenge for generative social simulation: a critical review of LLMs in agent-based modeling.Artificial intelligence review · 2026Article
- A scoping review on metrics to quantify reproducibility: a multitude of questions leads to a multitude of metrics.Royal Society open science · 2025Review
- Understanding social context in HIV and drug use via community-informed computational modeling: SILOS study protocol.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Model-driven decision support: A community-based meta-implementation strategy to predict population impact.Annals of epidemiology · 2024Article
- Modelling HIV/AIDS epidemiological complexity: A scoping review of Agent-Based Models and their application.PloS one · 2024Article
- Overdose deaths before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in a US county.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Replication of the natural selection of bad science.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- ASAS-NANP symposium: mathematical modeling in animal nutrition: agent-based modeling for livestock systems: the mechanics of development and application.Journal of animal science · 2023Article
- The relationship between age and sex partner counts during the mpox outbreak in the UK, 2022.PloS one · 2023Article
- Cost hierarchies and the pattern of product cost cross-subsidization: Extending a computational model of costing system design.PloS one · 2023Article
- High-Fidelity Agent-Based Modeling to Support Prevention Decision-Making: an Open Science Approach.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2022Article
- Computational models in systems biology: standards, dissemination, and best practices.Current opinion in biotechnology · 2022Review
- Article
- Article
- Building and experimenting with an agent-based model to study the population-level impact of CommunityRx, a clinic-based community resource referral intervention.PLoS computational biology · 2021Article
- Protecting patients and staff in residential treatment centers during exposure to COVID-19: commentary.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2021Article
- Treatment for opioid use disorder in the Florida medicaid population: Using a cascade of care model to evaluate quality.The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse · 2021Article
- Article
- Leveraging Modularity During Replication of High-Fidelity Models: Lessons from Replicating an Agent-Based Model for HIV Prevention.Journal of artificial societies and social simulation : JASSS · 2020Article
- Mechanism change in a simulation of peer review: from junk support to elitism.Scientometrics · 2014Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
Abstract
High-fidelity models are increasingly used to predict, and guide decision making. Prior work has emphasized the importance of replication in ensuring reliable modeling, and has yielded important replication strategies. However, this work is based on relatively simple theory generating models, and its lessons might not translate to high-fidelity models used for decision support. Using NetLogo we replicate a recently published high-fidelity model examining the effects of a HIV biomedical intervention. We use a modular approach to build our model from the ground up, and provide examples of the replication process investigating the replication of two sub-modules as well as the overall simulation experiment. For the first module, we achieved numerical identity during replication, whereas we obtained distributional equivalence in replicating the second module. We achieved relational equivalence among the overall model behaviors, with a 0.98 correlation across the two implementations for our outcome measure even without strictly following the original model in the formation of the sexual network. Our results show that replication of high-fidelity models is feasible when following a set of systematic strategies that leverage the modularity, and highlight the role of replication standards, modular testing, and functional code in facilitating such strategies.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.