Robert Axelrod and Leigh Tesfatsion, An On-Line Guide for Newcomers to
Agent-Based Modeling in the Social Sciences
(html,44K).
Brookings Institution (Washington, D.C.) supports a website titled
"The Road to Agent-Based Models"
(html)
that provides a brief history of agent-based modelling together with
related web links.
John Duffy, "Review of J. M. Epstein and R. Axtell, Growing Artificial
Societies: Social Science from the Bottom Up"
(ps,39K),
July 27, 1999. To appear in the Southern Economic Journal.
John Hogan, "From Complexity to Perplexity"
(html),
Scientific American, Volume 272, June 1995, pages 74-79.
Blake LeBaron, "Agent Based Computational Finance: Suggested Readings
and Early Research"
(pdf preprint,153K),
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Volume 24, Numbers 5-7,
2000, pages 679-702.
Roger A. McCain (Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), a researcher
active in ACE research, maintains a website titled
Game Theory: An Introductory Sketch
(html)
that provides a readable elementary exposition of basic game theory
principles for non-specialists.
Scott E. Page, "Computational Models from A to Z"
(html),
Keynote Address to SwarmFest'99, The Anderson School of Management at the
University of California at Los Angeles, March 27-29, 1999.
Leigh Tesfatsion, Agent-Based Computational Economics: A Constructive Approach to
Economic Theory
(pdf preprint,253K),
in Leigh Tesfatsion and Kenneth L. Judd
(eds.), Handbook of Computational Economics, Volume 2: Agent-Based
Computational Economics
(Preface, Contributors, and Abstracts),
Handbooks in Economics Series, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 2006, 904pp.
Leigh Tesfatsion, "Economic Agents and Markets as Emergent Phenomena"
(pdf preprint,167K),
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A., Vol. 99 (supp.
3), 2002, pp. 7191-7192.
Leigh Tesfatsion, "Agent-Based Computational Economics: Growing Economies
from the Bottom Up", Artificial Life, Volume 8, Number 1, 2002,
55-82, published by the MIT Press
[
(pdf preprint,212K) or
(ps preprint,354K)].
Leigh Tesfatsion,
"Agent-Based Computational Economics: Modeling
Economies as Complex Adaptive Systems",
Information Sciences 149 (2003), 263-269
(pdf preprint,71K).
Leigh Tesfatsion,
"Introduction to the Journal of Economic Dynamics and
Control Special Issue on ACE",
Volume 25, Numbers 3-4, March 2001, pp. 281-293
[
(pdf preprint,288K),
(ps preprint,100K)].
The published article is available from
science@direct.
Leigh Tesfatsion,
"Introduction to the Computational Economics
Special Issue on ACE",
Volume 18, Number 1, October 2001, pp. 1-8
[
(pdf preprint,236K),
(ps preprint,98K)].
Leigh Tesfatsion,
"Guest Editorial for the special issue of the
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation on Agent-Based
Modelling of Evolutionary Economic Systems",
Volume 5, Number 5, October 2001, pp. 437-441
[
(pdf preprint,278K),
(ps preprint,111K).
The published article is downloadable from
IEEE Xplore.
Leigh Tesfatsion,
"Agent-Based Computational Economics: A Brief Guide
to the Literature",
in Jonathan Michie (ed.), Reader's Guide to the
Social Sciences, Volume 1, Fitzroy-Dearborn, London, UK, March 2001
[
(pdf preprint,217K),
(ps preprint,82K)].
Leigh Tesfatsion,
"How Economists Can Get Alife",
pp. 533-564 in W. Brian Arthur, Steven Durlauf, and David Lane (eds.), The
Economy as an Evolving Complex System, II, Santa Fe Institute Studies in
the Sciences of Complexity, Volume XXVII, Addison-Wesley, 1997
[
(ps preprint,226K),
(pdf preprint,560K)].
Leigh Tesfatsion,
"How Economists Can Get Alife: An Abbreviated Version"
(html).
Leigh Tesfatsion,
"Review of J. M. Epstein and R. Axtell, Growing
Artificial Societies: Social Science from the Bottom Up",
Journal of Economic Literature XXXVI (March 1998), 233-234
(ps preprint,28K).
Nicolaas Vriend, Rational Behavior and Economic Theory
(pdf,23pp),
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Volume 29, 1996,
263-285.
Nicolaas Vriend, "Was Hayek an Ace?"
(SSRN,html),
Southern Economic Journal, 2002, Vol. 68, No. 4, p. 811-840.