An introduction to agent-based modeling modeling natural, social, and engineered complex systems with NetLogo: a review

Overview The advent of fast and widespread computational resources has enabled the work on rather new field of knowledge “complex systems” and to analyze them. In order to study the complex systems, a methodology called agent-based modeling has arisen. Although there is considerable diversity in the domain of computational modeling, there are only a handful of books in this area. Existing relevant books include (Railsback and Grimm 2011; Salamon 2011; Niazi and Hussain 2012; Banos et al. 2015; Hamill and Gilbert 2015; Secchi and Neumann 2015; Arifin et al. 2016; Namatame and Chen 2016; Paolucci and Sacile 2016). This book is really a welcome edition not only for the researchers but also for the graduate students for the development of new agent-based models for the complex systems, and the validation of their existing models using agent-based modeling technique. In this book, authors have started with the introduction to ABM and its purpose. Then the idea is given how to develop your first agent-based model. Finally, the techniques of analyzation of ABMs and their utilization are described.