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CSCS 530 Winter 2010 Syllabus
THESE ARE FOR Winter 2009
Day-by-Day detailed syllabi:
Useful links
Books and Readings
The readings cover three general areas:
- Programming -- Java, Repast
- Agent-Based Modeling in general
- Papers about specific models
Repast documentation is all online.
There are many Intro to Java Books. Here is one i think is good:
- Java Concepts (5th edition). Cay Horstmann (2008). Wiley
But take a look at this and others in the Lab or at Borders and see which you like.
There also are online books, eg this one is pretty good:
These are highly recommended ABM-related books:
- Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life.
John Miller and Scott Page (2007).
Covers conceptual issues of modeling social systems.
- Agent-Based Models. Nigel Gilbert (2007).
(SAGE Quantitative Applications in Social Sciences)
A nice short book with lots of refs.
- Individual-based Modeling and Ecology. V.Grimm and S.Railsback. (2005)
Aimed at ecologists, but generally accessible and covers
a wide range of conceptual and practical topics.
Copies of these are in the CSCS Lab for reading there.
I may make one or two "required" -- in that I'll decide to include
so many readings from them that you might as well just buy the book.
Papers about specific models which we will read in the second part
of the term will all be from online copies of journals (via Mirlyn).
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