New journal: Individual-based Ecology

The new journal Individual-based Ecology (IBE) has just been launched, with editors-in-chief Volker Grimm, Mark Hauber, Florian Jeltsch, and Karin Frank. IBE “promotes new experimental and monitoring designs and models that focus on individual organisms and...

Short course, July 2024, Łódź, Poland

Volker Grimm and Steve Railsback conducted a one-week short course on agent-based modeling with NetLogo, 29 July – 2 August, at the University of Łódź, Poland. The course was a great success and we look forward to future courses. Check here for...

Ecological Society of America recognizes Volker Grimm

The Ecological Society of America awarded Volker Grimm the 2023 Robert Whittaker Distinguished Ecologist Award, which is presented every two years to an outstanding non-American ecologist. The award statement noted Volker’s contributions to theoretical ecology,...

Reusable building blocks for agent-based models

Uta Berger, Volker Grimm, and others recently submitted a manuscript promoting reusable components of ABMs, and established the web site www.rbb4abm.com to promote them. The authors define resusable building blocks: “An RBB is a submodel that represents a...