Syllabus
23.03.2007: Introduction and logistics
- Patrick Kuhn, Nils Weidmann und Dirk Leuffen. 2006. Tausche Ballack gegen Yakin. ETH Life.
27.03.2007: Agent-based modeling I
Required readings:
- Nigel Gilbert. 2007. Agent-based models. Chapters 1 and 2.
Recommended readings:
- 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.
03.04.2007: Agent-based modeling II
Mandatory reading material:
- Nigel Gilbert. 2007. Agent-based models. Chapters 3, (4), and 5.
- Steve Bankes. 1993. Exploratory Modeling for Policy Analysis. Operations Research 41 (3):435-449.
Supplementary material:
- John Holland. 1992. Complex Adaptive Systems. Daedalus 121:17-30.
- Steven Bankes. 2003. Improving the utility and rigor of agent-based modeling through ensembles of models. In Agent.
- 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.
10.04.2007: Tooling
Required readings:
- Nils B. Weidmann and Luc Girardin. GROWLab: A Toolbox for Social Simulation. 2006.
- Robert Tobias and Carole Hofmann. Evaluation of free Java-libraries for social-scientific agent based simulation. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation vol. 7, no. 1. 2004.
Recommended readings:
- Nick Collier. RePast: An Extensible Framework for Agent Simulation. 2002.
- Nicholson Collier and Thomas R. Howe. RePast 2.0: Major Changes and New Features. 2003
- Sean Luke, Claudio Cioffi-Revilla, Liviu Panait, and Keith Sullivan. MASON: A New Multi-Agent Simulation Toolkit. Proceedings of the 2004 SwarmFest Workshop. 2004.
- North, M.J., N.T. Collier, and J.R. Vos. Experiences Creating Three Implementations of the Repast Agent Modeling Toolkit, ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, Vol. 16, Issue 1, pp. 1-25, ACM, New York, New York, USA (January 2006).
- Michele Sonnessa. JAS: Java Agent-based Simulation library. An open framework for algorithm-intensive simulations. 2004.
17.04.2007: Implementation
24.04.2007: Applications to economics (Dr. Casrten Murawski)
Reading material:
- John Nash, Non-Cooperative Games, The Annals of Mathematics, 2nd Ser., Vol. 54, No. 2. (Sep., 1951), pp. 286-295.
- R. D. McKelvey and A. McLennan. Computation of equilibria in finite games. In Handbook of Computational Economics. 1996.
- Matthew O. Jackson, The Economics of Social Networks, 2005.
- Michael Kearns, Michael L. Littman, and Satinder Singh, Graphical Models for Game Theory, 2001.
- Kenneth Arrow and Gerard Debreu, Existence of an equilibrium for a competitive economy, Econometrica Vol. 22, No. 3, July 1954.
- Xiaotie Deng, Christos Papadimitriou, and Shmuel Safra, On the Complexity of Equilibria, STOC'02, May 19-21, 2002, Montreal
- Nikhil R. Devanur, Christos H. Papadimitriou, Amin Saberi, and Vijay V. Vazirani, Market Equilibrium via a Primal-Dual Algorithm for a Convex Program. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, 2002.
08.05.2007: Applications to sociology
Required readings:
- Lars-Erik Cederman. 2005. Computational Models of Social Forms: Advancing Generative Process Theory. American Journal of Sociology, volume 110 (4), pages 864–893.
- Michael W. Macy, and Robert Willer. 2002. From Factors to Actors: Computational Sociology and Agent-Based Modeling . Annual Review of Sociology.
Supplementary material:
- 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.
- Thomas Schelling, Micromotives and Macrobehavior, W W Norton & Co Ltd, 1978, Chapter 4.
- Elizabeth Bruch and Robert D. Mare, Neighborhood choice and neighborhood change, UCLA, California Center for Population Research, On-Line Working Paper Series (University of California, Los Angeles), Year 2005, Paper CCPR-013-05.
- James G. March. 1991. Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning. Organization Science 2 (1):71-87.
15.05.2007: Applications to politics
Mandatory reading material:
- Lars-Erik Cederman and Luc Girardin. Exploring geopolitics with agent-based modeling. Prepared for presentation at University of Tokyo, September 24-25, 2005.
- Lars-Erik Cederman. 2003. Modeling the Size of Wars: From Billiard Balls to Sandpiles. American Political Science Review 97:135-150.
Supplementary material:
- S. A. Bremer, and M. Mihalka. 1977. Machiavelli in Machina: Or Politics Among Hexagons. Problems of World Modeling:303-337.
- 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.
- Joshua M. Epstein. 2002. Modeling civil violence: An agent-based computational approach.
22.05.2007: Applications to traffic and urban geography (Mr. Jeremy Hackney)
Reading material:
- Daganzo, et al (2006), The Nature of Gridlock Interactive Simulation. http://www.its.berkeley.edu/volvocenter/gridlock/
- Rieser, et al (2007), Truly agent-oriented coupling of an activity-based demand generation with a multi-agent traffic simulation, paper submitted to the World Conference on Transportation Research (WCTR).
- Macal (2005), Model Verification and Validation, Center for Complex Adaptive Agent Systems Simulation, Argonne National Laboratory