Robert Axelrod and Leigh Tesfatsion have written A Guide for Newcomers to Agent-Based Modeling in the Social Sciences which will appear in Kenneth L. Judd and Leigh Tesfatsion (Eds.), Handbook of Computational Economics, Vol. 2: Agent-Based Computational Economics, Handbooks in Economics Series, North-Holland, 2005.

Complementing this is a excellent a online guide with pointers to lots of web resources intended “to suggest a short list of introductory readings and supporting materials to help newcomers become acquainted with agent-based modeling (ABM).” They wisely avoided the temptation of providing a comprehensive site, instead focusing on the best online resources for someone new to the area to read. Although this is aimed at people in the social sciences, there is a lot of good material for anyone interested in how collections of autonomous, self-interested agents work.

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