The Real Impact of Social Simulations During the COVID-19 Crisis

Creating simulations for a crisis is not new. However, there have been no agent based social simulations that have been used during a crisis. In this chapter we describe the impact one can have with a simulation result, but also the requirements this poses on the simulation process. Basically it requires that one can quickly and flexibly generate many variations of scenarios, explain results in terms of the decision makers and extend the scenarios with new aspects that become important in a very short time.