Resources for MRes Special Methods: formal modelling and complexity

Books:

· Gilbert, N. and Troitzsch, K. G. (2005) SIMULATION FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENTIST, Open University Press.

· Ball, P. (2004) Critical Mass - How one thing leads to another. Heinemann/Farrar.

· Joshua M. Epstein and Robert L. Axtell (1996) Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science from the Bottom Up.  MIT Press.

Journals and Archives:

· Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation - http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk

· The NetLogo site of models and applets at: http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/

· Discussion papers of the Centre for Policy Modelling
http://cfpm.org/cpmreps.html

Other papers:

· Nigel Gilbert Pietro Terna (1999) How to build and use agent-based models in social science. http://www.savannah-simulations.ch/about_simulation/agent_based/Gilbert_1999.pdf

· Rosaria Conte, et al. (2001). Sociology and Social Theory in Agent Based Social Simulation: A Symposium.  Computational and Mathematical Organisation Theory.  7(3). http://www.springerlink.com/content/r056582566518236/fulltext.pdf?page=1

· Bruce Edmonds (2003) Against: a priori theory  For: descriptively adequate computational modelling, In The Crisis in Economics: The Post-Autistic Economics Movement: The first 600 days, Routledge, 175-179.  (http://www.btinternet.com/~pae_news/review/issue10.htm)

Other:

Slides and this document at http://cfpm.org/mres

Contact Details:

Bruce Edmonds (http://bruce.edmonds.name)
Centre for Policy Modelling (http://cfpm.org)
Room 101, to the left of the lifts, floor 1, Aytoun Tower Block
Telephone: (0161) 247 6479, Email: bruce@edmonds.name
Drop in session, generally 2-4pm Thursdays.