Agent-Based Models in Social Science

There is a tremendous amount of agent-based modeling in social science---for example the classic work on evolution of cooperation by Axelrod et al., from the early 1980s. Social science applications are a focus of the Repast program. Here we have posted a few sites that have come to our attention.

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Evacuation modeling at EvacMod.net

From the site: "This is the Evacuation Modelling portal for the simulation of human behavior during emergency situations. The site is made by the evacuation modelling community for the evacuation modelling community.

Almost all content on the site is user generated (by users logging on and entering the information). It is Evacmod.net's aim to to provide a platform for students, fire safety engineers, software engineers, behavioural scientists, researchers or any interested parties to communicate, and share their knowledge and experience. By providing such a platform it is hoped that the field of evacuation modelling will be further advanced. It is hoped a variety of perspectives are expressed in an environment that is free from political or commercial bias."

Enterprise Simulation in Swarm

Pietro Terna's work at the University of Torino. "jES, the synthetic name of the Java Enterprise Simulator project, is a frame used to develop enterprise simulation models based on the Java version of Swarm both (i) to simulate the activities ‑ and the consistent emerging results ‑ of an actual enterprise and (ii) to build virtual or hypothetical enterprises."