Re: [Swarm-Modelling] short reading list for IBMs/ABMs in ecology?

[Paul E Johnson]

I'd say Lou should refer you to his excellent online lecture notes. I 
grabbed a copy from his web site and I make all my students read!  I'm 
glad I did that, too, because when I go back to his site I can't find my 
way back to the same place. Here's the copy I kept.

http://lark.cc.ku.edu/~pauljohn/ps909/Agent-Based_Models/GrossLectureNotes.fmt


address@hidden wrote:
> Alex,
>     On the specific topic you mentioned (compare and constrast ABM/IBM to 
> classical models), I suggest you might include the paper by 
> Lorenz Fahse, Christian Wissel, and Volker Grimm 
> "Reconciling classical and individual-based approaches in theoretical
> population ecology:  a protocol for extracting population
> parameters from individual-based models" published in American 
> Naturalist 152:838-852 (Dec. 1998) available through Jstor. 
> Volker Grimm and colleagues have published alot more on this topic
> since then, but that paper lays out a good framework for the topic 
> you mentioned. Note that Eli Meir has been working on a whole
> book on this topic as well, based around what he has learned from
> developing Ecobeaker - I don't think the book is out yet though. 
>     Regarding what pre-dated Swarm, you should realize that Swarm has 
> been around in one form or another for a long time - I first saw 
> a demo of it when we invited Dave Hiebeler here for a visit in 
> mid-1994, at which time it was still at such a stage that we decided
> for the ATLSS project to develop our own C++ code. 
>     Good luck preparing for the exams!
>     Best regards,
>          Lou Gross
> Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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