Community Events

Behave Summer School on Agent-Based Modelling 2025, 1-12 September 2025, Brescia, Italy (Hybrid)

By taking part in this course, you will gain a modelling culture and learn the different skills required for building agent-based models (ABMs) applied to sociological, ecological, or socio-ecological systems. MISS-ABMS promotes a collaborative practice of modelling and simulation, is multi-platform (NetLogo, GAMA and Cormas), presents the different stages of an ABM process, with a focus on model design and implementation, offers a significant time for group work to design and implement an ABM

More information for the session and registration can be found here: https://is4ie.org/events/event/international-industrial-ecology-day-2024/program/112

Intro to Agent Based Modeling classes being planned by University of Milan

In the mentioned context, the Life-Cycle Thinking for Complex-Systems Initiative brings a webinar in which we will have three presentations that are meant to provide an introductory view of the characteristics, benefits, and challenges of using ABM as a complexity-oriented approach in combination with LCA. The presentations will be given by three experienced researchers in the field:

A 2-week training course to gain a modelling culture and learn the different skills required for building agent-based models (ABM) applied to sociological, ecological or socio-ecological systems, with a focus on participatory modelling

This workshop introduces agent-based modeling, a method for understanding complex social dynamics by simulating interactions among individual agents. Agent-based modeling allows observing social patterns in computer simulations, enabling students to specify rules for agent behavior. The workshop teaches NetLogo for creating models, enabling students to design, analyze, and visualize social dynamics, incorporating empirical data using statistical tools like R or Python.

This five-day course will introduce the principles and practice of agent-based modelling. Participants will learn how to design, implement, and evaluate ABMs that are relevant to their own fields of research and teaching. The workshop includes introductory instruction in NetLogo, a popular and powerful software platform and programming language specifically for ABMs.

The Official European Social Simulation Association Summer School in Social Simulation 2023, an introductory course in agent-based modelling, is taking place the week of 28 August to 1 September in Aberdeen, Scotland.

· MISS-ABMS is multi-cultural in terms of background and nationalities of the trainers and participants

· MISS-ABMS promotes a collaborative practice of modelling and simulation

· MISS-ABMS is multi-platform: Cormas, Gama and NetLogo

· MISS-ABMS presents the different stages of an ABM process, with a focus on model design and implementation

· MISS-ABMS offers a significant time for group work to design and implement an ABM