CSSS 2006 Agent-based modeling

Lecturers: Steve Guerin and Owen Densmore



Resources (an evolving list):

  • Learning NetLogo, Tutorial #1: Models, Tutorial #2: Commands, and Tutorial #3: Procedures. NetLogo User Manual, version 2.1. December 13, 2004. [HTML] Highly recommended
  • Robert Axelrod, Advancing the Art of Simulation in the Social Sciences." Japanese Journal for Management Information System, vol. 12, No. 3, 2003. [PDF] "
  • Simulation for the Social Scientist by Nigel Gilbert, Klaus Troitzsch
  • Bonabeau, Eric. Agent-based modeling: Methods and techniques for simulating human systems." PNAS 99 (2002): 7280-7287. [PDF]
  • Epstein, Joshua M. and Robert L. Axtell. Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science From the Bottom Up. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1996. [To purchase]
  • Parunak, H. Van Dyke. "Go to the Ant: Engineering Principles from Natural Multi-Agent Systems." Industrial Technology Institute, Ann Arbor, MI, 1997, unpublished. [PDF]