Comments on: VisitorSim: agent modeling for site management http://electricarchaeologist.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/visitorsim-agent-modeling-for-site-management/ Agent based modeling, games, virtual worlds, and online education for archaeology and history Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:12:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Shawn http://electricarchaeologist.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/visitorsim-agent-modeling-for-site-management/#comment-913 Shawn Thu, 01 May 2008 18:36:42 +0000 http://electricarchaeologist.wordpress.com/?p=261#comment-913 Hi Helen, Netlogo is probably the easiest place to start - and it's pretty powerful too! http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/ It comes with a number of tutorials to get you started. If you're familiar with object-oriented programming, that'll make the concepts a little bit easier. I've got some materials too for designing ABM's... I should maybe post these sometime. You might also look up: http://www.econ.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/ace.htm and http://www.turtlezero.com/index.html. Finally, the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at UCL has a wealth of resources: casa.ucl.ac.uk Nigel Gilbert and Klaus Troitzsch 'Simulation for the Social Scientist' is a foundational text, get your hands on that. Finally, also take a look at http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS.html, the Journal of Artificial Societies and Simulation (reviews of software, books, articles, etc- fantastic journal!). My TravellerSim model was published in the CAA2006 volume, there's some good stuff in that article about design/use etc (he said, tooting his own horn). And of course, you can always just contact me directly if ever you get stuck! Hi Helen,

Netlogo is probably the easiest place to start - and it’s pretty powerful too! http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/

It comes with a number of tutorials to get you started. If you’re familiar with object-oriented programming, that’ll make the concepts a little bit easier. I’ve got some materials too for designing ABM’s… I should maybe post these sometime. You might also look up: http://www.econ.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/ace.htm and http://www.turtlezero.com/index.html. Finally, the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at UCL has a wealth of resources: casa.ucl.ac.uk

Nigel Gilbert and Klaus Troitzsch ‘Simulation for the Social Scientist’ is a foundational text, get your hands on that. Finally, also take a look at http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS.html, the Journal of Artificial Societies and Simulation (reviews of software, books, articles, etc- fantastic journal!). My TravellerSim model was published in the CAA2006 volume, there’s some good stuff in that article about design/use etc (he said, tooting his own horn).

And of course, you can always just contact me directly if ever you get stuck!

]]> By: Helen http://electricarchaeologist.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/visitorsim-agent-modeling-for-site-management/#comment-912 Helen Thu, 01 May 2008 14:15:00 +0000 http://electricarchaeologist.wordpress.com/?p=261#comment-912 Hi Shawn, Nice to see this published! Been thinking about ABMs recently for my agricultural modelling but no idea where to start. What software do you use and do you know of any good tutorials to get me started?! Cheers! H Hi Shawn,
Nice to see this published! Been thinking about ABMs recently for my agricultural modelling but no idea where to start. What software do you use and do you know of any good tutorials to get me started?!

Cheers!
H

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