An introduction to agent-based modeling
Subtitle: modeling natural, social, and engineered complex systems with NetLogo
By: Uri Wilensky and William Rand
Contributors: Rand, William, 1976-
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 482
ISBN-13: 9780262731898
Subjects: System analysis; Multiagent systems; Computer simulation; Data processing; NetLogo (Computer program language)
Other titles: Agent-based modeling
Description: “This book eloquently captures the excitement of understanding natural and social phenomena by recreating them in computer simulations. The agent-based approach championed here provides deeply satisfying scientific explanations because it provides a bridge between levels of description, showing how high-level, macroscopic properties, such as crystal formation, tumor shape, flocking, population cycles, social coordination, and transportation networks, can spontaneously emerge from lower-level interactions among agents rather than being explicitly programmed into a model. When combined with active exploration using Uri Wilensky’s free and widely used NetLogo programming environment, reading this book equips students and researchers with a new language for generating and expressing scientific theories"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-458) and index.