A comprehensive and hands-on Introduction to the core concepts, methods, and applications of Agent-Based modeling, including detailed Netlogo examples.
Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland..
William Rand is Assistant Professor of Marketing and Computer Science and Director of the Center for Complexity in Business at the Robert H.
He is the author of the Netlogo language.
About the Author: Uri Wilensky is Professor of Learning Sciences, Computer Science, and Complex Systems at Northwestern University and Director of the Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling there.
There is also an accompanying website with all the models and code.
Features in each chapter include step-by-step guides to developing models in the main text; text boxes with additional information and concepts; end-of-chapter explorations; and references and lists of relevant reading.
The book first describes the nature and rationale of Agent-Based modeling, then presents the methodology for designing and building ABMs, and finally discusses how to utilize ABMs to answer Complex questions.
Its hands-on approach--with hundreds of examples and exercises using NetLogo--enables readers to begin constructing models immediately, regardless of experience or discipline.
An Introduction to Agent-Based Modeling offers a comprehensive description of the core concepts, methods, and applications of ABM.
ABM is applicable to Complex Systems embedded in natural, social, and Engineered contexts, across domains that range from engineering to ecology.
Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) offers a new way of doing science: by conducting computer-based experiments.
This book provides an Introduction to one of the primary methodologies for research in this new field of knowledge.
The advent of widespread fast computing has enabled us to work on more Complex problems and to build and analyze more Complex models.
A comprehensive and hands-on Introduction to the core concepts, methods, and applications of Agent-Based modeling, including detailed Netlogo examples
