Finding Optimal Agent-Based Models

Research and Commentary

Complex Systems Approaches to Population Health

Joshua M. Epstein, National Institutes of Health, May 30, 2007

Research and Commentary

Coupled Contagion Dynamics of Fear and Disease: Mathematical and Computational Explorations

Joshua M. Epstein, Jon Parker, Derek Cummings and Ross A. Hammond, PLoS One Journal, December 15, 2008

Research and Commentary

Remarks on the Foundations of Agent-Based Generative Social Science

Joshua M. Epstein, CSED Working Paper # 41, July 01, 2005

Research and Commentary

Toward a Containment Strategy for Smallpox Bioterror: An Individual-Based Computational Approach

Derek Cummings, Donald S. Burke, Joshua M. Epstein, Ramesh M. Singa and Shubha Chakravarty, The Brookings Institution, December 01, 2002

Research and Commentary

Exploring Price-Independent Mechanisms in the Obesity Epidemic

Ross A. Hammond and Joshua M. Epstein, CSED Working Paper No. 48, August 30, 2007

Research and Commentary

Agent Based Modeling: Population Health from the Bottom Up

Joshua M. Epstein, National Institutes of Health, July 13, 2007

Research and Commentary

Social Influences and Smoking Behavior

Robert Axtell, Steven Durlauf, Joshua M. Epstein, Ross A. Hammond, Ben Klemens, Jon Parker, Zirui Song, Thomas Valente and H. Peyton Young, The Brookings Institution, February 10, 2006

Research and Commentary

Non-Cooperative Dynamics of Multi-Agent Teams

Robert Axtell, The Brookings Institution, April 01, 2002

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How Computer Modeling Can Avert Pandemic Outbreaks

Joshua M. Epstein, December 02, 2008

Research and Commentary

Moving Beyond Kyoto

Warwick J. McKibbin, The Brookings Institution, October 01, 2001

Expert

Stephen Eubank

Research and Commentary

A Hybrid Epidemic Model: Combining the Advantages of Agent-based and Equation-based Approaches

Georgiy Bobashev, Joshua M. Epstein, D. Michael Goedecke and Feng Yu, Winter Simulation Conference, December 27, 2007

Research and Commentary

Are We Born Prejudiced?

Ross A. Hammond, New Scientist, March 13, 2007

Research and Commentary

Seeing Around Corners

Jonathan Rauch, The Atlantic Monthly, April 01, 2002

Research and Commentary

Modeling Civil Violence: An Agent-Based Computational Approach

John D. Steinbruner, Joshua M. Epstein and Miles T. Parker, The Brookings Institution, January 01, 2001

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Joshua M. Epstein

Research and Commentary

Why Model?

Joshua M. Epstein, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, October 31, 2008

Research and Commentary

Obesity and the Influence of Others

Carol Graham, H. Peyton Young and Ross A. Hammond, The Washington Post, August 21, 2007

Research and Commentary

Social Dynamics of Obesity

Mary A. Burke and Frank Heiland, CSED Working Paper # 40, May 01, 2005

Research and Commentary

Why Agents? On the Varied Motivations for Agent Computing in the Social Sciences

Robert Axtell, The Brookings Institution, November 01, 2000