Good books or papers to recommend to Social Sim beginners

[mhinsch]

I’m looking for good introductory works to recommend to those who want to start or are just starting in ABMs, specifically in the social sciences.

[ric-colasanti]

Hi mhinsch
A paper I found very useful was Agent-Based Modeling in Public Health: Current Applications and Future Directions
by Melissa Tracy

[alee]

Robert Axelrod and Leigh Tesfatsion’s guide might be a good starting point:

On-Line Guide for Newcomers to ABM (Axelrod and Tesfatsion)

This and other links are available on our current Education page but we are in the process of migrating the list of resources at https://www.comses.net/resources/education/ to a community wiki here in the forums:

Educational Resources

NOTE: These resources may not be up-to-date - if you find any broken links please make a note in the comments or feel free to update as this is a community wiki post. Thanks! Books Epstein, J. M. & Axtell, R. (1996). Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science from the Bottom Up. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution. Gilbert, N. & Troitzsch, Klaus G. (2005) Simulation for the Social Scientist. (Second Edition). New York: Open University Press. Heppenstall, A. J., Crooks, A. T., Se…

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