Product Description

Aimed at readers with minimal experience in computer programming, this brief book provides a theoretical and methodological rationale for using ABM in the social sciences. It goes on to describe some carefully chosen examples from different disciplines, illustrating different approaches to ABM. It concludes with practical advice about how to design and create ABM, a discussion of validation procedures, and some guidelines about publishing articles based on ABM.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #152947 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 112 pages

About the Author

Nigel Gilbert is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey.  He was one of the pioneers of the use of Agent-Based Models in the social sciences.  He co-edited the January 2005 special issue of the American Journal of Sociology, which was devoted to computational modeling.  He also edited Researching Social Life, Second Edition (SAGE, 2001) and Understanding Social Statistics, Second Edition (2006, SAGE) with Jane Fielding.  He is President of the European Social Simulation Association (ESSA).

Customer Reviews

Very good if slightly limited
This describes itself as a primer and that is exactly what it is. I would like to have seen some more stuff on modelling such systems in a visual sense rather than the author jumping straight into computer models.

Never the less this is a very good introduction to the subject.