I am currently working on a slide deck that I plan to use to teach an introductory course in agent-based computational modeling based on Axtell and Epstein's
Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science from the Bottom Up (Complex Adaptive Systems)
.
Below are a list of resources that I have compiled so far for anyone that is interested:
- Sugarscape: Netlogo JAVA implementations of Sugarscape models. This implementation has pre-programmed defaults that re-create the animations from Growing Artificial Societies. Also includes some basic documentation and references for those interested in more detail. Drawbacks: I have yet to figure out how to export data generated by the models. I believe it can be done by downloading the Netlogo tool (as opposed to just running the model in a web-browser), but I have not had time to do this yet.
- A nice tutorial from the University of Leicester
- ASCAPE modeling software: JAVA ABM software created by Brookings et al. In addition to implementing a number of well-known ABMs the software allows users to write, compile, and run their own models. Also has the ability to export model-generated data for analysis...which is obviously crucial.
- Modeling software from University of Oxford that implements Sugarscape.
- Related papers: Horres and Gore
I will return to add more resources as I identify them. I will also post the slide deck as soon as I have completed the first draft...
courtesy of the UK Cabinet Office.
