MACSS 40550 ABM

ABM course in MACSS program taught Spring 2024.

Each week has a separate folder, skill, and model / component that we'll cover. Readings are below, including models / code are here.

Textbook: You MAY find the following text helpful, but note that it covers NetLogo instead of using Python: Agent-Based and Individual-Based Modeling: A Practical Introduction, Second Edition. ISBN: 0691190836

Other: you might want to skim through this intro to Mesa. Note that we have a cheatsheet here (frequently updated).

Week	Skill focus / Substantive focus	Goal for week.	Classic model	Readings
week 1	Intro & background	Understand basics and some of greatest hits	Game of life / Wolfram	Textbook Ch 1
				Kazil, Jackie, David Masad, and Andrew Crooks. 2020. “Utilizing Python for Agent-Based Modeling: The Mesa Framework.” In Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, eds. Robert Thomson et al. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 308–17.
				Epstein, Joshua M. 2008. “Why Model?” https://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/4/12.html (October 3, 2022).
Thursday				Elster, Jon. (1998) “A Plea for Mechanisms.” In Peter Hedström and Richard Swedberg (eds.), Social Mechanisms: An Analytical Approach to Social Theory (New York: Cambridge University Press), ch. 3.
				Norling, Emma et al (2013). “Informal Approaches to Developing Simulation Models.” Chapter 4 of Simulating Social Complexity
week 2	Agents & Initializing	Create new agent type (how??) OR initialize the world differently	Schelling	Schelling, Thomas C. 1969. “Models of Segregation.” The American Economic Review 59(2): 488–93.
				Silver, Daniel et al (2021). “Venues and segregation: A revised Schelling model.” PLoS One, 16(1)
				Müller, Birgit et al. 2013. “Describing Human Decisions in Agent-Based Models – ODD + D, an Extension of the ODD Protocol.” Environmental Modelling & Software 48: 37–48.
week 3	Emergence, parameters, & visualizations	Add additional parameter value	Boids / Flocking	Grimm, Volker et al. 2005. “Pattern-Oriented Modeling of Agent-Based Complex Systems: Lessons from Ecology.” Science 310(5750): 987–91.
			Ants (brief)	Thompson, W. A., Vertinsky, I., & Krebs, J. R. (1974). The Survival Value of Flocking in Birds: A Simulation Model. Journal of Animal Ecology , 43(3), 785–820. https://doi.org/10.2307/3537
				Netlogo web app of flocking
				Ch 8 from textbook
week 4	Sensing / Environment, visualization / DataCollector	Add / change value of environment	Schelling	Crooks, Andrew T., and Christian J. E. Castle. 2012. “The Integration of Agent-Based Modelling and Geographical Information for Geospatial Simulation.” In Agent-Based Models of Geographical Systems, eds. Alison J. Heppenstall, Andrew T. Crooks, Linda M. See, and Michael Batty. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 219–51. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8927-4_12 (October 3, 2022).
			Greedy cows (brief)	Jordan, René, Mark Birkin, and Andrew Evans. 2012. “Agent-Based Modelling of Residential Mobility, Housing Choice and Regeneration.” In Agent-Based Models of Geographical Systems, eds. Alison J. Heppenstall, Andrew T. Crooks, Linda M. See, and Michael Batty. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 511–24. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8927-4_25
			preview Wolf / sheep	Mesa source code behind Data Collector
				Mesa guide to Data Collector
				optional: Groff, Elizabeth R., Shane D. Johnson, and Amy Thornton. 2019. “State of the Art in Agent-Based Modeling of Urban Crime: An Overview.” Journal of Quantitative Criminology 35(1): 155–93.
week 5	Scheduling & Updating	Goal: change the updating scheme of popular model	PD Grid	Comer, Kenneth W., and Andrew G. Loerch. 2013. “The Impact of Agent Activation on Population Behavior in an Agent-Based Model of Civil Revolt.” Procedia Computer Science 20: 183–88.
				New Agent Set developed by Mesa with updating
				Alizadeh, Meysam, and Claudio Cioffi-Revilla. “Activation Regimes in Opinion Dynamics: Comparing Asynchronous Updating Schemes.” : 22.
week 6	Docking	Export model data	Proposal workshop	(revisit) Comer, Kenneth W., and Andrew G. Loerch. 2013. “The Impact of Agent Activation on Population Behavior in an Agent-Based Model of Civil Revolt.” Procedia Computer Science 20: 183–88.
week 7	Analysis / YAAWN	Critical re-evaluation of model	Wolf / sheepRumor Mill (mention)	O’Sullivan, David et al. 2016. “Strategic Directions for Agent-Based Modeling: Avoiding the YAAWN Syndrome.” Journal of Land Use Science 11(2): 177–87.
				Janssen, Marco A., and Elinor Ostrom. 2006. “Empirically Based, Agent-Based Models.” Ecology and Society 11(2).(February 9, 2023).
week 8	Extensions / Complications		Wolf Sheep	Lamperti, Francesco, Andrea Roventini, and Amir Sani. 2018. “Agent-Based Model Calibration Using Machine Learning Surrogates.” Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 90: 366–89. doi:10.1016/j.jedc.2018.03.011.
week 9	(wrap)		Demos	Epstein, J.M. Learning to Be Thoughtless: Social Norms and Individual Computation. Computational Economics 18, 9–24 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1013810410243
				Silva, Petrônio CL, Paulo VC Batista, Hélder S. Lima, Marcos A. Alves, Frederico G. Guimarães, and Rodrigo CP Silva. "COVID-ABS: An agent-based model of COVID-19 epidemic to simulate health and economic effects of social distancing interventions." Chaos, Solitons & Fractals 139 (2020): 110088.
				Bruch, E., & Atwell, J. (2015). Agent-Based Models in Empirical Social Research. Sociological Methods & Research, 44(2), 186-221. https://doi.org/10.1177/0049124113506405

Some readings from David Peterson's suggestions -- thanks!