Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) readings

The following is small sample of ABM related papers, books, etc. Note that inclusion or exclusion of books is not meant as an endorsement/condemnation. This is just a collection of books I find myself telling people new to the field to take a look at to get a general idea of what people are doing. If your favorities are not listed here, let me know and I may add them.


Complex Adaptive Systems. 
   An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life.
   John H. Miller and Scott E. Page
   Princeton Univ. Press. 2007.

Managing Business Complexity
   Discovering Strategic Solutions with ABM and SImulation
   Michael J. North, Charles M. Macal.  Oxford Univ Press. 2007.


Agent-Based Models (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences) 
Nigel Gilbert 
Sage Publications, Inc;  2007

Generative Social Science: Studies in Agent-Based Computational Modeling
Joshua Epstein 
 (Princeton Studies in Complexity)  2007

Individual-based Modeling and Ecology
   Volker Grimm and Steven F. Railsback.
   Princeton Series in Theoretical and Computational Ecology.
   2005.

Agent-Based Simulation Comes of Age
   Douglas A. Samuelson and Charles M. Macal
   OR/MS Today - August 2006
   http://www.lionhrtpub.com/orms/orms-8-06/fragent.html

Would-Be Worlds: How Simulation is Changing the Frontiers of Science.
   Casti, John.
   Wiley, NY.  1997.
   Abbrev: WBW

Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science From the Bottom Up.
   Epstein, Joshua M and Axtell, Robert.
   The MIT Press.  1996.
   Abbrev:  GAS

Simulating Social Phenomena
   R. Conte, R. Hegselmann and P. Terna (eds).
   Springer-Verlag, 1997.

Special issue in PNAS on ABM:
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Vol 99 (Supp. 3)
online here


Economic Simulations in Swarm:
     Agent-Based Modelling and Object Oriented Programming
   Benedikt Stefannson and Franceso Luna
   Kluwer: 2000

Agent-Based Methods in Economics and Finance: Simulations in Swarm
   edited by Francesco Luna and Alessandro Perrone
   In : Advances in Computational Economics  : Volume 17

Simulation for the Social Scientist (online!)
   N. Gilbert and K.G.Troitzsch
   Open University Press, 1999.

Liebrand, Wim B. G., Nowak, Andrzej, and Hegselmann, Rainer (eds). 
   Computer Modeling of Social Processes.   1998

Gimblett, H. Randy (ed.)
  Integrating Geographic Information Systems and Agent-Based Modeling
  Techniques for Simulating Social and Ecological Processes.
  Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity. 
  Oxford: Oxford University Press. (2002)

Turtles, Termites and Traffice Jams.
  Mitchell Resnick
  MIT Press, 1997.

Simulating Societies.  A Mathematica Tookkit for
   Modeling Socioeconomic Behavior.
   Richard J. Gaylord and Louis J. D'Andria.
   Springer-Verlog, NY.  1998.

Ferber, Jacques. 
   Multi-Agent Systems: An Introduction to Distributed Artificial Intelligence.
   Harlow (UK): Addison-Wesley. 1999.

Multiagent systems. 
A modern approach to distributed artificial intelligence. 
G. Weiss (Ed.). 
The MIT Press.  1999.

For more specific readings, see CSCS 530 Course Readings or CSCS 501 Course Readings. or another set of CSCS 530 readings.