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Agent-Based Models
Contributor(s): Gilbert, Nigel (Author)
ISBN: 1506355609     ISBN-13: 9781506355603
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
OUR PRICE:   $39.90  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: December 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Research
- Mathematics | Game Theory
- Social Science | Methodology
Dewey: 519.3
LCCN: 2019025314
Series: Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences
Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.3" W x 8.6" (2.00 lbs) 128 pages
 
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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. A website to accompany the book includes an annotated exemplar model using NetLogo.

Contributor Bio(s): Gilbert, Nigel: - Nigel Gilbert is Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey, Guildford, England. He is the author or editor of 34 books and many academic papers and was the founding editor of the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. His current research focuses on the application of agent-based models to understanding social and economic phenomena, especially the emergence of norms, culture, and innovation. He obtained a doctorate in the sociology of scientific knowledge in 1974 from the University of Cambridge and has subsequently taught at the universities of York and Surrey in England. He is one of the pioneers in the field of social simulation and is past president of the European Social Simulation Association. He is a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences and of the Royal Academy of Engineering.