Agent-Based Simulation
運用模擬來輔助政治現象的研究是個跨領域(政治、經濟、社會、人類、管理學)
的嶄新嘗試，是個與調查/統計研究方法全然不同的思維與途徑。本頁收集的是以複雜適應系統(Complex Adaptive System,
CAS) 為概念架構，輔以代理人基的模擬方法(Agent-Based Modeling, ABM) 來研究社會現象的相關資源。
Journals
- Artificial Life Journal (Inernational Societies of Artifitial Life (ISAL))
- Advances in Complex Systems (ACS)
- Complexity
- Evolution and Human Behavior (The Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES))
- Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (JASSS)
- Simulation & Gaming
- Social Science Computer Review
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Toolkits
- Leigh Tesfatsion provides a comprehensive list of toolkits for ABM.
- Swarm -a Object-C based simulation toolkit
- RePast Project -an extended library from Swarm
- MASON - a java-based packge for 2D and 3D simulation (George Mason U.)
- StarLogo -a 'light" version of Swarm (MIT)
- NetLogo --a java based simulation toolkit
- PS-I -a NSF founded simulation toolkit (U of Penn)
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Institutes
- Open Agent-Based Modeling Consortium
- The ARC Centre for Complex Systems (ACCS), University of Queensland
- Santa Fe Institute (SFI)
- Center for the Study of Complex Systems (CSCS), U of Michigan
- Center for Complex Systems Research, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Center for Dynamics and Feedback in Nature (CDFN), Cal. Tech, Princeton U., UC Santa Barbara
- Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems (CASOS), CMU
- Center for Social Complexity, George Mason U.
- Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
- The Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO), Northwestern U
- Human Complex Systems, UCLA
- Networks and Complex Systems, Indiana U.
- North American Computational Social and Organization Science(NAACSOS)
- The European Social Simulation Association (ESSA)
- Center for Complex Adaptive Systems, Argonne National Laboratory
- Inernational Societies of Artificial Life (ISAL)
- The Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES)
- Complexity Science Virtual Research Center, Peking University, P.R.China
- Summer Institutes on Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models
(EITM):
@Duke; @Wash U - International Soceity for Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (ISAB)
- Pacific Asian Association for Agent-based Approach in Economic & Social Complex Systems
- The Society for Modeling and Simulation (SMS)
- International Simulation and Gaming Association
- more...
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Other Online Resources
- Prof. Taber's sources of computational modeling and AI.
- A concept map (by New England Complexity System Institute, NECSI)
- Social Agent Simulation and Principal Agent Theory (by Prof. David Garson --check out his online text book)
- Online resources on individual-based modeling by Craig Reynolds.
- A list of simulation software tools
- Research Soceities FQS Forum
- Important researchers: Ik Jae Chung (SUNY-Albany), David F. Andersen (SUNY-Albany), Douglas E. Van Houweling (U of Michigan), Ting-Wei Chiang (SUNY-Albany), Ian S. Lustick (Penn)
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