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Agent-based models
- Title
- Agent-based models / Nigel Gilbert.
- Author
- Gilbert, G. Nigel
- Publication
- Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Publications, Inc., [2020]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 20-2618 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xv, 112 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "Agent-based simulation has become increasingly popular as a modeling approach in the social sciences because it enables researchers to build models where individual entities and their interactions are directly represented. The Second Edition of Nigel Gilbert's Agent-Based Models introduces this technique; considers a range of methodological and theoretical issues; shows how to design an agent-based model, with a simple example; offers some practical advice about developing, verifying and validating agent-based models; and finally discusses how to plan an agent-based modelling project, publish the results and apply agent-based modeling to formulate and evaluate social and economic policies. A website to accompany the book includes a simulation using NetLogo"--
- Series Statement
- Quantitative applications in the social sciences ; 153
- Uniform Title
- Quantitative applications in the social sciences ; no. 07-153.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 85-108) and index.
- Contents
- The idea of agent-based modeling -- Agents, environments, and timescales -- Designing an agent-based model -- Developing an agent-based model -- Using agent-based models.
- Call Number
- JFD 20-2618
- ISBN
- 9781506355603
- 1506355609
- 9781506355597 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781506355610 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781506355627 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019025314
- OCLC
- 1125280397
- Author
- Gilbert, G. Nigel, author.
- Title
- Agent-based models / Nigel Gilbert.
- Publisher
- Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Publications, Inc., [2020]
- Edition
- Second edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Quantitative applications in the social sciences ; 153Quantitative applications in the social sciences ; no. 07-153.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 85-108) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 20-2618