Agent-Based Models. Nigel Gilbert

Lynne Hamill, Samer Hassan, Wander Jager, David Lane, Scott Moss, Kavin Narasimhan, Gilbert Peffer, Alex Penn, Andreas Pyka, Juliette Rouchier, Mauricio Salgado, Stephan Schuster, Flaminio Squazzoni, Luc Steels, Klaus Troitzsch, Paul Vogt, and Lu Yang. I thank Riccardo Boero, Lars-Eric Cederman, Lynne Hamill, Luis R. Izquierdo, Ken Kahn, Tim Liao, Michael Macy, Lu Yang, and eight anonymous reviewers for their detailed and constructive comments on drafts of the manuscripts for the first and second editions.

      SAGE Publishing would like to thank the following reviewers for their feedback on the revision:

       Andrew Crooks, George Mason University

       Sally Jackson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

       James Nolan, University of Saskatchewan

       Oleg Smirnov, Stony Brook University

       Garry Sotnik, Portland State University

      About the Author

      Nigel Gilbert is professor of sociology at the University of Surrey, Guildford, England. He is the author or editor of 34 books and many academic papers, and was the founding editor of the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. His current research focuses on the application of agent-based models to understanding social and economic phenomena, especially the emergence of norms, culture, and innovation. He obtained a doctorate in the sociology of scientific knowledge in 1974 from the University of Cambridge and has subsequently taught at the universities of York and Surrey in England. He is one of the pioneers in the field of social simulation and is past president of the European Social Simulation Association. He is a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences and of the Royal Academy of Engineering.