Agent-Based Computer Simulation Modeling

1. The Road to Agent-Base Models. Here is a short history of agent-based modeling from the Brookings Institute.

2. Leigh Tesfatsion's Home Page. Professor Tesfatsion is a well-known economist and agent-based modeler. Her web site contains probably the most comprehensive collection of information on agent-based modeling and economics in the world.

3. NetLogo Homepage. NetLogo is a very user-friendly and FREE agent-base modeling program created by Uri Wilensky and his colleagues at Northwestern University. It can be used to create both agent-based and system dynamics models. It contains an neat feature that allows the user to run and compare, side-by-side, equivalent agent-based and system dynamics models of the same problem/system.

4. NetLogo Tutorial. Here's a NetLogo tutorial created by Owen Densmore.

5. NetLogo Yahoo Group. Here is a Yahoo Group devoted to NetLogo users. If you have a NetLogo modeling question, ask it here.

6. AgentSheets. AgentSheets is a very user-friendly agent-based modeling program.

7. AnyLogic Homepage. AnyLogic is a very powerful agent-based modeling package that can be used to create agent-based (ABM), system dynamics (SD), discrete event (DES), and hybrid ABM-SD-DES models.

8. NetLogo Learning Lab. Here is Mesa State College's NetLogo Learning Lab.

9. Repast Homepage. The Recursive Porous Agent Simulation Toolkit (Repast) is a powerful agent-based modeling program originally developed by originally developed at the University of Chicago by Sallach, Collier, Howe, North. Today it is maintained by the non-profit volunteer Repast Organization for Architecture and Development (ROAD). ROAD is lead by a board of directors that includes members from a wide range of government, academic and industrial organizations. The Repast system, including the source code, is available directly from the web.

10. Repast Tutorial. Here's a Repast tutorial created by Owen Densmore.

11. University of Arizona's Repast Tutorial. Here's a Repast tutorial created by the University of Arizona.

12. Sun Microsystem's Java Tutorial. Here is a Java tutorial from Sun Microsystems.

13. SwarmWiki. SwarmWiki is a collaborative resource for agent-based modeling. It is created and managed interactively by users, researchers and anyone else interested or involved in agent-based modeling.

14. University of Michigan's Center for the Study of Complex Systems. The Center for the Study of Complex Systems (CSCS) is a broadly interdisciplinary program at the University of Michigan designed to encourage and facilitate research and education in the general area of nonlinear, dynamical and adaptive systems. The Center is based on the recognition that many different kinds of systems which include self-regulation, feedback or adaptation in their dynamics, may have a common underlying structure despite their apparent differences. Moreover, these deep structural similarities can be exploited to transfer methods of analysis and understanding from one field to another. In addition to developing deeper understandings of specific systems, interdisciplinary approaches should help elucidate the general structure and behavior of complex systems, and move us toward a deeper appreciation of the general nature of such systems.

15. ICPSR Summer School Material. Here is the material from the University of Michigan's Complex Systems Models in the Social Sciences ICPSR Summer School.

16. Agent-Based Modeling at Sandia National Laboratories. The folks at Sandia are well-versed in agent-based modeling. They have an extensive catalog of models and  papers.

17. Santa Fe Institute. The Folks at the Santa Fe Institute are pioneers in agent-based modeling and the science of complexity.

18. FRIAM Group. FRIAMGroup is an emergent organization of Complexity researchers and software developers in Santa Fe, New Mexico interested in Agent-Based Modeling, Applied Complexity, Artificial Life, Evolutionary Computation and Swarm Intelligence.