Methodological Investigations in Agent-Based Modelling

Part I. Agent-Based Models

1. Introduction
Eric Silverman

2. Simulation and Artificial Life
Eric Silverman

3. Making the Artificial Real
Eric Silverman

4. Modelling in Population Biology
Eric Silverman

Part II. Modelling Social Systems

5. Modelling for the Social Sciences
Eric Silverman, John Bryden

6. Analysis: Frameworks and Theories for Social Simulation
Eric Silverman

7. Schelling’s Model: A Success for Simplicity
Eric Silverman

8. Conclusions
Eric Silverman

Part III. Case Study: Simulation in Demography

9. Modelling in Demography: From Statistics to Simulations
Jakub Bijak, Daniel Courgeau, Robert Franck, Eric Silverman

10. Model-Based Demography in Practice: I
Eric Silverman, Jakub Bijak, Jason Hilton

11. Model-Based Demography in Practice: II
Eric Silverman, Jason Noble, Jason Hilton, Jakub Bijak

12. Conclusions
Eric Silverman

Keywords: Social Sciences, Methodology of the Social Sciences, Simulation and Modeling, Demography, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of the Social Sciences