Our routines play an important role in a wide range of social challenges such
as climate change, disease outbreaks and coordinating staff and patients in a
hospital. To use agent-based simulations (ABS) to understand the role of
routines in social challenges we need an agent framework that integrates
routines. This paper provides the domain-independent Social Practice Agent
(SoPrA) framework that satisfies requirements from the literature to simulate
our routines. By choosing the appropriate concepts from the literature on agent
theory, social psychology and social practice theory we ensure SoPrA correctly
depicts current evidence on routines. By creating a consistent, modular and
parsimonious framework suitable for multiple domains we enhance the usability
of SoPrA. SoPrA provides ABS researchers with a conceptual, formal and
computational framework to simulate routines and gain new insights into social
systems
