Syllabus

29.03.2005: Introduction and logistics

Mandatory reading material:

• Robert Axelrod. 2003. Advancing the Art of Simulation in the Social Sciences. Japanese Journal for Management Information System 12 (2):16-22.
• Robert Axelrod, and Leigh Tesfatsion. 2005. A Guide for Newcomers to Agent-Based Modeling in the Social Sciences. In Handbook of Computational Economics: Agent-Based Computational Economics , edited by K. L. Judd and L. Tesfatsion: North-Holland.

Supplementary material:

• Robert Axtell. 2000. Why Agents? On the varied motivations for agent computing in the social sciences.
• Joshua M. Epstein. 1999. Agent-Based Computational Models And Generative Social Science. Complexity 4 (5):41-60.

05.04.2005: Complexity theory

Mandatory reading material:

• John Holland. 1992. Complex Adaptive Systems. Daedalus 121:17-30.
• Jr. J. Barkley Rosser. 1999. On the Complexities of Complex Economic Dynamics. The Journal of Ecoconomic Perspectives 13 (4):169-192.
• Tamas Vicsek. 2002. The bigger picture. Nature 418:131.

Supplementary material:

• Stuart A. Kauffman. 1990. The Sciences of Complexity and "Origins of Order". Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1990:299-322.
• Cosma Rohilla Shalizi. 2003. Methods and Techniques of Complex Systems Science: An Overview. In Complex Systems Science in Biomedicine, edited by T. S. Deisboeck, J. Y. Kresh and T. B. Kepler: Kluwer.

12.04.2005: Artificial life and intelligence

Mandatory reading material:

• Robert Axelrod. 2001. Evolving New Strategies: The Evolution of Strategies in the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma.
• John H. Holland. 1992. Genetic Algorithms. Scientific American 267:66-72.
• Christopher G. Langton. 1988. Aritificial Life: Addison-Wesley.

Supplementary material:

• John H. Holland. 1996. Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity: Addison Wesley.
• John R. Koza. 1990. Genetic Evolution and Co-evolution of Computer Programs.
• J. Stephen Lansing. 2002. ‘Artificial Societies’ and the Social Sciences.
• Richard E. Lenski, Charles Ofria, Robert T. Pennock, and Christoph Adami. 2003. The Evolutionary Origin of Complex Features. Nature.
• Melanie Mitchell. 1998. An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms: MIT Press.
• Nicolaas J. Vriend. 1998. An illustration of the essential difference between individual and social learning, and its consequences for computational analyses. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 24:1-19.

19.04.2005: Network models

Mandatory reading material:

• Albert-László Barabási, Réka Albert, and Hawoong Jeong. 1999. Mean-field theory for scale-free random networks. Physica A 272:173-187.
• Steven H. Strogatz. 2001. Exploring complex networks. Nature 410:268-276.

Supplementary material:

• Philip Ball. 2004. Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
• Albert Réka, and Albert-László Barabási. 2001. Statistical Mechanics of Complex Networks. Reviews of Modern Physics 74.
• Duncan J. Watts. 2003. Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age: W. W. Norton & Company.

26.04.2005: Traffic and urban geography

Mandatory reading material:

• Philip Ball. 2004. Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
• Kai Nagel, and Bryan Raney. 2003. Transportation planning II: Complex systems applications for transportation planning.

Supplementary material:

• Michael Balmer, Kai Nagel, and Bryan Raney. 2004. Large scale multi-agent simulations for transportation applications.
• Stephen Eubank, Hasan Guclu, V. S. Anil Kumar, Madhav V. Marathe, Aravind Srinivasan, Zolta´n Toroczkai, and Nan Wang. 2004. Modelling disease outbreaks in realistic urban social networks.
• Pieric Ferrari, and Kai Nagel. 2004. Robustness of Efficient Passenger Boarding in Airplanes.
• Kai Nagel, and Fabrice Marchal. 2003. Computational methods for multi-agent simulations of travel behavior.
• Throsten Schelhorn, David O'Sullivan, Mordechay Haklay, and Mark Thrustain-Goodwin. 1999. Streets: An Agent-Based Pedestrian Model.

03.05.2005: Economy

Mandatory reading material:

• Leigh Tesfatsion. 2005. Agent-based Computational Economics: A Constructive Approach to Economic Theory. In Handbook of Computational Economics, Volume 2: Agent-Based Computational Economics, edited by K. L. Judd and L. Tesfatsion: North-Holland.
• Allen Wilhite. 2001. Bilateral Trade and ‘Small-World’ Networks. Computational Economics 18 (1):49-64.

Supplementary material:

• Robert Axtell. 1999. The Emergence of Firms in a Population of Agents: Local Increasing Returns, Unstable Nash Equilibria, and Power Law Size Distributions: CSED Working Paper.
• Ken Kollman, John H. Miller, and Scott E. Page. 2003. Computational Models in Political Economy. Edited by W. B. Arthur, S. Durlauf and D. Lane. Vol. |VII, The Economy as an Evolving Complex Economy II: Addison-Wesley.
• Blake LeBaron. 2002. Building the Santa Fe Artificial Stock Market.
• Michael W. Macy, and John Skvoretz. 1998. The Evolution of Trust and Cooperation between Strangers: A Computational Model. American Sociological Review.
• Leigh Tesfatsion. 2002. Economic agents and markets as emergent phenomena. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99 (3):7191-7192.

10.05.2005: Sociology

Mandatory reading material:

• Lars-Erik Cederman. 2005. Computational Models of Social Forms: Advancing Generative Process Theory. American Journal of Sociology 110 (4).
• Michael W. Macy, and Robert Willer. 2002. From Factors to Actors: Computational Sociology and Agent-Based Modeling . Annual Review of Sociology.
• Andrzej Nowak, Jacek Szamrej, and Bibb Latané. 1990. From Private Attitude to Public Opinion: A Dynamic Theory of Social Impact. Psychological Review 97 (3):362-376.

Supplementary material:

• Theodore C. Belding. 2004. Nobility and Stupidity: Modeling the Evolution of Class Endogamy.
• Ian S. Lustick, and Dan Miodownik. 2002. The Institutionalization of Identity: Micro Adaptation, Macro Effects, and Collective Consequences. Studies in Comparative International Development.
• James G. March. 1991. Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning. Organization Science 2 (1):71-87.
• Luc Steels. 1997. The synthetic modeling of language origins. Evolution of Communication 1 (1):1-34.

17.05.2005: Conflict

Mandatory reading material:

• S. A. Bremer, and M. Mihalka. 1977. Machiavelli in Machina: Or Politics Among Hexagons. Problems of World Modeling:303-337.
• Lars-Erik Cederman. 2003. Modeling the Size of Wars: From Billiard Balls to Sandpiles. American Political Science Review 97:135-150.
• Joshua M. Epstein. 2002. Modeling civil violence: An agent-based computational approach.

Supplementary material:

• Lars-Erik Cederman. 1997. Emergent Actors: How States and Nations Develop and Dissolve.
• Lars-Erik Cederman. 2002. Endogenizing Geopolitical Boundaries with Agent-Based Modeling.
• Lars-Erik Cederman. 2004. Articulating the Geo-Cultural Logic of Nationalist Insurgency.
• Thomas R. Cusack, and Richard J. Stoll. 1994. Collective Security and State Survival in the Interstate System. International Studies Quaterly 38 (1):33-59.
• Timothy R. Gulden. 2002. Spatial and temporal patterns in civil violence: Guatemala, 1977–1986. CSED Working Papers (26).

24.05.2005: Validation

Mandatory reading material:

• Steve Bankes. 1993. Exploratory Modeling for Policy Analysis. Operations Research 41 (3):435-449.
• Mark A. Bedau. 1999. Can Unrealistic Computer Models Illuminate Theoretical Biology?. Proceedings of the 1999 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Workshop Program:20-23.
• Klaus G. Troitzsch. 2004. Validating Simulation Models. Proceedings 18th European Simulation Multiconference.

Supplementary material:

• Robert L. Axtell. 2000. Effects of Interaction Topology and Activation Regime in Several Multi-Agent Systems. CSED Working Papers (12).
• Steven Bankes. 2003. Improving the utility and rigor of agent-based modeling through ensembles of models. In Agent.
• Bruce Edmonds. 2003. Simulation and Complexity - how they can relate. In Virtual Worlds of Precision: Computer-based Simulations in the Sciences and Social Sciences, edited by V. Feldmann and K. Mühlfeld.
• Scott Moss. 1998. Social Simulation Models and Reality: Three Approaches.
• William Rand, Daniel G. Brown, Scott E. Page, Rick Riolo, Luis E. Fernandez, and Moira Zellner. 2003. Statistical Validation of Spatial Patterns in Agent-Based Models. Proceedings of Agent Based Simulation 2003.
• R. Keith Sawyer. 2004. Social Explanation and Computational Simulation. Philosophical Explorations 7 (3).

31.05.2005: GIS

Mandatory reading material:

• Itzhak Benenson, and Paul M. Torrens. 2003. Geographic Automata Systems: A New Paradigm for Integrating GIS and Geographic Simulation. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on GeoComputation.
• J. Stephen Lansing, and James N. Kremer. 1993. Emergent Properties of Balinese Water Temple Networks. American Anthropologist 95 (1):97-114.

Supplementary material:

• Robert L. Axtell, Joshua M. Epstein, Jeffrey S. Dean, George J. Gumerman, Alan C. Swedlund, Jason Harburger, Shubha Chakravarty, Ross Hammond, Jon Parker, and Miles Parker. 2002. Population growth and collapse in a multiagent model of the Kayenta Anasazi in Long House Valley. Proceedings National Academy of Sciences 99 (3):7275-7279.
• Dimitris Ballas, David Rossiter, Bethan Thomas, Graham Clarke, and Danny Dorling. 2005. Geography Matters: Simulating the Local Impacts of National Social Policies.
• H. Randy Gimblett. 2002. Integrating Geographic Information Systems and Agent-Based Modeling Techniques for Simulating Social and Ecological Processes, Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity: Oxford University Press.

07.06.2005: Student presentations

14.06.2005: Student presentations

21.06.2005: Student presentations

28.06.2005: Student presentations