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This book discusses various aspects of agent-based modeling and simulation using FLAME (Flexible Large-scale Agent-Based Modeling Environment) which is a popular agent-based modeling environment that enables automatic parallelization of models. Along with a focus on the software engineering principles in building agent-based models, the book comprehensively discusses how models can be written for various domains including biology, economics and social networks. The book also includes examples to guide readers on how to write their own models.



Table of Contents

Introduction. Setting the stage: complex systems, emergence and evolution. X-machines and Agents. Multi-agent approach using FLAME as an example. Steps to writing your first model. Application to Discipline of Biology. Modeling Biological Scenarios. Application to Discipline of Sociology. Modeling Social networks. Application to Discipline of Economics. Modeling Economic markets and Games. Discussions on Agent-based Modeling as a technique to aid your research. How can you extend X-machine agents for learning behavior? How to validate and verify agent based models. Parallelization of agent-based models. Appendices. References.