Advances in Complex Systems Vol. 16, Nos. 4 & 5 (2013) 1350023 (21 pages) c  World Scientific Publishing Company DOI: 10.1142/S0219525913500239 AN AGENT-BASED MODEL OF HUMAN DISPERSALS AT A GLOBAL SCALE SIMONE CALLEGARI ∗ and JOHN DAVID WEISSMANN † Anthropological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstr. 190, 8057 Z¨ urich, Switzerland ∗ simone.callegari@aim.uzh.ch † jody@aim.uzh.ch NATALIE TKACHENKO Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstr. 190, 8057 Z¨ urich, Switzerland nataliet@iftp.uzh.ch WESLEY P. PETERSEN Anthropological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstr. 190, 8057 Z¨ urich, Switzerland wesley.petersen@sam.math.ethz.ch GEORGE LAKE Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstr. 190, 8057 Z¨ urich, Switzerland lake@iftp.uzh.ch MARCIA PONCE DE LE ´ ON ‡ and CHRISTOPH P. E. ZOLLIKOFER § Anthropological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstr. 190, 8057 Z¨ urich, Switzerland ‡ marcia@aim.uzh.ch § zolli@aim.uzh.ch Received 28 September 2012 Revised 19 March 2013 Accepted 8 April 2013 Published 5 July 2013 In this paper, we report on the theoretical foundations, empirical context and techni- cal implementation of an agent-based modeling (ABM) framework, that uses a high- performance computing (HPC) approach to investigate human population dynamics on a global scale, and on evolutionary time scales. The ABM-HPC framework provides an 1350023-1