Individual-based models are an exciting and widely used new tool for ecology. These computational models allow scientists to explore the mechanisms through which population and ecosystem ecology arises from how individuals interact with each other and their environment. This book provides the first in-depth treatment of individual-based modeling and its use to develop theoretical understanding of how ecological systems work, an approach the authors call "individual-based ecology.?
Grimm and Railsback start with a general primer on modeling: how to design models that are as...
Individual-based models are an exciting and widely used new tool for ecology. These computational models allow scientists to explore the mechanisms...
Agent-based modeling is a new technique for understanding how the dynamics of biological, social, and other complex systems arise from the characteristics and behaviors of the agents making up these systems. This innovative textbook gives students and scientists the skills to design, implement, and analyze agent-based models. It starts with the fundamentals of modeling and provides an introduction to NetLogo, an easy-to-use, free, and powerful software platform. Nine chapters then each introduce an important modeling concept and show how to implement it using NetLogo. The book goes on to...
Agent-based modeling is a new technique for understanding how the dynamics of biological, social, and other complex systems arise from the characte...
Steven F. Railsback Bret C. Harvey Stephen K. Jackson
This report documents Version 4.2 of InStream, including its formulation, software, and application to research and management problems. InStream is a simulation model designed to understand how stream and river salmonid populations respond to habitat alteration, including altered flow, temperature, and turbidity regimes and changes in channel morphology.
This report documents Version 4.2 of InStream, including its formulation, software, and application to research and management problems. InStream is a...
The essential textbook on agent-based modeling-now fully updated and expandedAgent-Based and Individual-Based Modeling has become the standard textbook on the subject for classroom use and self-instruction. Drawing on the latest version of NetLogo and fully updated with new examples, exercises, and an enhanced text for easier comprehension, thi
The essential textbook on agent-based modeling-now fully updated and expandedAgent-Based and Individual-Based Modeling has become the standard textboo...
Ecologists now recognize that the dynamics of populations, communities, and ecosystems are strongly affected by adaptive individual behaviors. Yet until now, we have lacked effective and flexible methods for modeling such dynamics. Traditional ecological models become impractical with the inclusion of behavior, and the optimization approaches of be
Ecologists now recognize that the dynamics of populations, communities, and ecosystems are strongly affected by adaptive individual behaviors. Yet unt...
