Bibliography

These are some texts and monographs and other links related to artificial societies. Please use the comment form if you have other suggestions for inclusion.

Simulation software catalogue

Very comprehensive catalogue of packages for computer-based simulation.

Bibliography for Simulation: Optimization and Sensitivity Analysis

Contains up-to-date references for evaluating computer simulation models including those based on genetic algorithms for optimization and sensitivity analysis.

Agent-Based Computational Economics (ACE)

Agent-based computational economics (ACE) is roughly defined as the computational study of economies modelled as evolving decentralized systems of autonomous interacting agents. A central concern of ACE researchers is to understand the apparently spontaneous appearance of global regularities in economic processes such as the unplanned coordination of trade in decentralized market economies that economists associate with Adam Smith's invisible hand. The challenge is to explain these global regularities from the bottom up in the sense that the regularities arise from the local interactions of autonomous agents as channeled through actual or potential economic institutions rather than through fictitious top-down coordinating mechanisms such as imposed equilibrium conditions.

The ACE Web site provides hotlinks to ACE surveys, an annotated ACE syllabus of readings, pointers to other ACE related sites, information on upcoming ACE-related conferences and an archive of distributed ACE news notes.

Theory in a Complex World: Agent-Based Simulations of Geographic Systems

An extended abstract by Catherine Dibble.

The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour

The home page for this society.

Distributed AI and Artificial Societies at Essex

A brief page about research in this area at Essex.

Computer simulation of social processes

A paper by Nigel Gilbert of the University of Surrey.

Project for the Simulation of Social Behaviour

Part of the Italian National Research Council - Institute of Psychology Division of Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Modelling and Interaction Web Pages.

The Gods of Sugarscape By Ivars Peterson

An article in Science News Online about social scientist Joshua M. Epstein and computer modeller Robert Axtell and their artificial world Sugarscape.

Some practical issues in designing and calibrating artificial Human-Recreator agents in GIS-based simulated worlds

A paper by H. R. Gimblett, B. Durnota and R. M. Itami.

Artificial Societies and Psychological Agents (September 1996)

KMi Technical Report by Stuart Watt also available as a Postscript file and Acrobat PDF file.

Computer Simulation: The Art and Science of Digital World Construction

A paper by Paul Fishwick.

Violating an Occupational Sex-Stereotype: Israeli Women Earning Engineering Degrees

Paper published in Sociological Research Online.

A Simulation of the Structure of Academic Science

Paper by Nigel Gilbert published in Sociological Research Online.

Simulation - A Way Forward?

Debate item by David Byrne published in Sociological Research Online.

On the Uses of Computer-Assisted Simulation Modeling in the Social Sciences

Debate item by Robert A. Hanneman and Steven Patrick published in Sociological Research Online.

Situating Simulation in Sociology

Debate item by Peter Halfpenny published in Sociological Research Online.

Modeling and Simulation of Ethnic and Social Processes

Results of investigations of teacher and students of Omsk State University. The software is provided.

Program for the Study of Complex Systems

Home page for an institution involved in computer simulation of societies and other complex adaptive systems.

	Bibliography		Genetic Algorithms
	Artificial Life		Microsimulation
	Cellular Automata		Neural Networks
	Distributed Artificial Intelligence		System Dynamics

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