[Simulchaord-discuss] Annotated list of Individual-Based Models links

[Paul Fernhout]

Another link gateway:

Individual-Based Models: an annotated list of links by Craig Reynolds 
  http://www.red3d.com/cwr/ibm.html

"Individual-based models are simulations based on the global
consequences of local interactions of members of a population. These
individuals might represent plants and animals in ecosystems, vehicles
in traffic, people in crowds, or autonomous characters in animation and
games. These models typically consist of an environment or framework in
which the interactions occur and some number of individuals defined in
terms of their behaviors (procedural rules) and characteristic
parameters. In an individual-based model, the characteristics of each
individual are tracked through time. This stands in contrast to modeling
techniques where the characteristics of the population are averaged
together and the model attempts to simulate changes in these averaged
characteristics for the whole population. Individual-based models are
also known as entity or agent based models, and as
individual/entity/agent-based simulations. "

The page has about a hundred annotated links to projects in the field.
The page says it was last updated October 1999. Any more recent ones?

-Paul Fernhout
Kurtz-Fernhout Software 
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Developers of custom software and educational simulations
Creators of the Garden with Insight(TM) garden simulator
http://www.kurtz-fernhout.com