Some materials for the course "Introduction to Social Simulation"

Lectures on the Web:

• "What is agent-based social simulation", Bruce Edmonds at: http://www.methods.manchester.ac.uk/methods/abss/
• A collection of talks about different aspects of Social Simulation from the ESSA 2011 Summer School on social simulation at: http://www.assystcomplexity.eu/video.jsp?collection=ESSA+2011+Summer+School

Experts/centres in the UK:

• Bruce Edmonds, Ruth Meyer, Centre for Policy Modelling, MMU, http://cfpm.org
• Nigel Gilbert, Centre for Research in Social Simulation (CRESS), Univ. of Surrey, http://cress.soc.surrey.ac.uk
• Mark Birkin, Department of Geography, Leeds, http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/m.birkin
• Nick Gotts and Gary Polhill, Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen, http://www.macaulay.ac.uk/fearlus/

Some Relevant Projects

• The Social Complexity of Immigration and Diversity (SCID), a 5-year collaboration between the Institute for Social Change (UoM), the Centre for Policy Modelling (MMU) and the Department of Theoretical Physics (UoM). http://scid-project.org
• The EMIL project, simulating the two-way dynamics of norm innovation, an EU FP6 project. http://emil.istc.cnr.it/ (final report at http://cfpm.org/cpmrep206.html )
• Freshwater Integrated Resource Management with Agents (FIRMA), an EU 5FP project applying agent-based simulation and integrated assessment to issues in the management of fresh-water resources. http://cfpm.org/firma/ (final report of models at http://cfpm.org/cpmrep119.html)

Further Reading:

• Edmonds, B., Hernandez, C. and Troitzsch, K. G. (eds.) (2007) Social Simulation: Technologies, Advances and New Discoveries, IGI publications. http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/2/reviews/page.html 
• Steven F. Railsback & Volker Grimm (2011) Agent-based and Individual-based Modeling: A Practical Introduction. Princeton University Press.
  

Other resources/portals on the Web:

• The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk
• The European Social Simulation Association (ESSA). http://essa.eu.org
• Open ABM, a portal for agent based simulation, http://openabm.org
• The National e-Infrastructure for Social Simulation, http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/projects/neiss