The main reason for this web site is for us to collect feedback from
people willing to try our draft materials.
If you have any comments or suggestions please email them to us at:
authors@railsback-grimm-abm-book.com
We are especially keen to hear from instructors interested in using the
book to teach classes. However, we also like very much to hear the
experience of individuals using
our book to teach themselves. One issue we are concerned about is how
much, and how, to make the kinds of materials now available on the downloads page
available
once the book is in print.
This book would not have been possible without all the experience,
wisdom, and
skill that has gone into NetLogo.
Our close friend and collaborator Uta Berger coordinates the Summer
School in Individual- and Agent-based Modeling at Dresden University of
Technology, where much of this book's content has been developed
and tested.
More information about our first book Individual-based Modeling and
Ecology is available from Princeton University Press.
The book is available from Princeton and bookstores.
The
individual-based ecological
modeling site at Humboldt State University.
Volker
Grimm's home page.
This site was designed by our friends at Carson Park
Design.
The simulation graphics on this site are courtesy of Roger Jovani,
and from the model described in: Jovani & Grimm 2008. Breeding
synchrony in colonial birds: from local stress to global harmony.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 275: 1557-1563. The photo
of breeding gannets is by Ivy Dawned.
Our official authors' conference locations are Muddy's in Arcata and Fela in Leipzig. Music is provided by BachFest and Semperoper.