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Agent-Based Models

Nigel Gilbert author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:SAGE Publications Inc

Published:7th May '20

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Agent-based simulation has become increasingly popular as a modeling approach in the social sciences because it enables researchers to build models where individual entities and their interactions are directly represented. The Second Edition of Nigel Gilbert′s Agent-Based Models introduces this technique; considers a range of methodological and theoretical issues; shows how to design an agent-based model, with a simple example; offers some practical advice about developing, verifying and validating agent-based models; and finally discusses how to plan an agent-based modelling project, publish the results and apply agent-based modeling to formulate and evaluate social and economic policies.

The new edition of Agent-Based Models provides the same strong conceptual overview as the first edition, with significant updates and elaborations to reflect ten years of growth in this important approach to modeling. 
-- Sally Jackson * review *
Nigel Gilbert is one of the fathers of agent-based modeling and in this book provides a great introduction into the field. 
-- Garry Sotnik * Review *

A great introduction for social scientists who want to know about agent-based modeling. It offers readers guidelines on how to build such models and what to consider when designing and testing them. 

-- Andrew Crooks * Review *
If you are planning to motivate and introduce the field of agent-based modeling to social scientists who have little or no prior knowledge of the topic, then this is your book. 
-- James Nolan * Review *

ISBN: 9781506355603

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 160g

128 pages

2nd Revised edition