Agent-based model for rural–urban migration: A dynamic consideration

• A dynamic agent-based model is constructed for rural–urban migration.
• It conforms to the typical dynamic linear multi-agent systems model.
• Consensus of certain variable could be harmful to the overall stability and should be avoided.

This paper develops a dynamic agent-based model for rural–urban migration, based on the previous relevant works. The model conforms to the typical dynamic linear multi-agent systems model concerned extensively in systems science, in which the communication network is formulated as a digraph. Simulations reveal that consensus of certain variable could be harmful to the overall stability and should be avoided.