Resources

Recommended readings on agent-based modeling

• Axelrod, Robert. 1997. The Complexity of Cooperation: Agent-Based Models of Competition and Collaboration. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

• Casti, John L. 1997. Would-Be Worlds: How Simulation Is Changing the Frontiers of Science. New York: Wiley.

• Cederman, Lars-Erik. 1997. Emergent Actors in World Politics: How States and Nations Develop and Dissolve. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

• Epstein, Joshua M. and Robert Axtell. 1996. Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science From the Bottom Up. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

• Holland, John H. 1995. Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley.

Recommended web pages on complexity and computational modeling

• The Santa Fe Institute, the “Mecca of complexity studies”: http://www.santafe.edu/

• The Center for the Study of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan: http://www.pscs.umich.edu/ See especially Rick Riolo’s home page: http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~rlr/ for details on agent-based modeling, and Robert Axelrod’s page: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~axe/ for general references to complexity.

• The Center on Social and Economic Dynamics, Brookings Institution: http://www.brookings.edu/es/dynamics/default.htm

• The European web sites on Computer simulation of societies http://alife.ccp14.ac.uk/cress/research/simsoc/simsoc.html and the European Social Simulation Association http://essa.cfpm.org/ offer interesting links.

• Leigh Tesfatsios provides a comprehensive web page on computational economics:
  http://www.econ.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/ace.htm

• See also the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation: http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS.html
  and the Journal for Computational and Mathematical Theory (CMOT)
  http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/1381-298X (from where PDF files can be downloaded)

Java resources

Te following textbook offers the best introduction for those who already have previous programming experience, especially in C and C++:

• Eckel, Bruce. 2003. Thinking in Java. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
  See also http://www.mindview.net/

Alternatively, a very good introduction to Java programming for beginners is:

• Schildt, Herbert. 2001. Java2: A Beginner’s Guide. Osborne McGraw Hill.

• The RePast web page contains free software and documentation: http://repast.sourceforge.net

• See also Sun’s “New to Java Programming Center”:
  http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/new2java/
  and their Java Tutorial: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/index.html