An introduction to agent-based modeling

By Uri Wilensky

Subjects: T57.62 .w54 2015, NetLogo (Computer program language), 003/.3, System analysis, Computer simulation, Programming languages (electronic computers), Data processing, System analysis--data processing, Netlogo (computer program language), Multiagent systems

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"--