Simulation for the Social Scientist

The book's content is good and serves its purpose (5 stars). But its diagramation and graphics are poor and not standartized. Seems like a amateur book (3 stars).

Explains in great details. I learned netLogo programming after going through an example from the book.

This is an excellent introduction to and comprehensive historical and analytical survey of the interdisciplinary science of social simulation modeling, written by two internationally-acclaimed computational social scientists. The initial chapters focus on the foundations of computational modeling in the social sciences. Subsequent chapters provide lucid and well-documented materials on system dynamics, microsimulations, neural nets, cellular automata and related models, ending with multi-agent systems, agent-based models and evolutionary computation. Significant additions to the earier version include hands-on excercises using NetLogo and other valuable pedagogical materials. This is "must-ready" for anyone interested in the computational science of social complexity at all levels of modeling, from individuals and groups to nations and the world system. The international bibliography and internet references also give a concrete sense of the increasingly global network of the research community in this area.

This book could be considered a first reading on Social science simulation.It's easy to read, has really good examples and most important has a lot of references to other books and tools.Do not set your expectations too high, it won't teach you how to build simulation, it just point out several different ways of doing it.

Great book! It illustrates several techniques to run simulations of social mechanisms and it provides also the code in order to replicate the experiments. Unfortunately, the book is quite old and it has not been updated, so, the code must be revised (e.g. the simulations run with NetLogo are written using an old version of Logo language).

Voilà un livre de base très intéressant au sujet de la modélisation multi-agent et de son utilisation en sciences humaine et sociale!