Sociology 242G
Some Links to Simulation Resources on the Web
This page contains materials supporting sociology 242G. During the terms when this course is being taught, it will also have a home page on the U.C.R. campus web-server, which gives access to email and web-board utilities. This course is developed by Robert Hanneman of the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Riverside. Feel free to use and redistribute any materials posted here (with citation, please). Your comments and suggestions are much appreciated.
Folks in our seminar have contributed some interesting finds for resources on the web dealing (mostly) with applying simulation modeling to sociological theories. Please drop me a note to point me to new resources!

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http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/research/simsoc/ Home page of the Simulated Societies group, coordinated by Professor Nigel Gilbert. A major resource for computational modeling in sociology. You may wish to subscribe to the mail list-server, which includes many of the most active practitioners of simulation models for sociological theory.
http://php.indiana.edu/~heise/ Prof. David Heise at Indiana University has developed a number of sophisticated simulation packages for control frame theory, Event Structure Analysis, and other interesting things. Most work focuses on event-chains, syntax of events and linguistic products, and other "qualitative" theoretical concerns.
http://www.tomnoonan.com/factial.html Software for fractal models and images -- there really is not yet much serious application of this stuff to social theory, but it really is fun to play with.
http://www.socresonline.org.uk/socresonline/welcome.html This is the e-journal Sociological Research Online that often has interesting papers on methodology, and some papers on simulation method. A worthwhile journal to scan for other articles, too.
http://www.expectation.com/dynamo.htm Expectation software offers a free-ware version of a new program called "dynamo" (not the Pugh-Roberts MIT group DYNAMO) that builds electro-mechanical systems from components. No direct applications to sociology, but such virtual analog machines could be used for modeling.
http://www.brookings.edu/SUGARS~1/ Axtell and Epstein's Sugarscape agent-based model. This is an important piece of work. Check it out.
http://pscs.physics.lsa.umich.edu/pscs.html Program for the Study of Complex Systems at Univ. of Michigan. Many links to download sites and sites to run simulations on line are provided. The U. Michigan program is one of the major centers of "complexity" research and agent-based modeling approaches. Some of it's work is directed at problems of interest to sociologists. Look for the links pages at http://www.pscs.umich.edu/RELATED/websites.html
http://gaslab.cs.unr.edu/ A good resource location for Genetic Algorithms (which are a useful approach to making "learning" agents and "evolving" population of agents in sociological agent-based models)
http://www.brook.edu/es/dynamics/models/pd/oldpd.htm This is a java applet to run the basic Prisoner's Dilemma model.
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/mwm14/ Professor Michael Macy's page has a number of useful papers in .PDF. Michael is a leading figure in adapting Neural Network algorithms to problems of learning agents in computational models of sociological theories.
http://hmt.com/cwr/ Craig Reynolds has some java (run them over the web) simulations of agent systems emphasizing spatial movement -- flocking, 3-body movement, etc. Reported to be "cool"
http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/agents99 University of Washington resource site on agent-based models -- good interdisciplinary coverage.
http://www.santafe.edu/projects/swarm Here's one way into the Santa Fe Institute site. This is a major locus of complexity research, and the source of the SWARM modelling environment free software.
http://learning.mit.edu/res/wp/ResTerr.html The Learning Organizations program at MIT is a significant research program in developing models of organizations.
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/cybsysli.html Principia Cybernetica Web is a good source of links and materials in cybernetics theory and modeling. See also their bibliography.
http://www.forresterconsulting.com/links.html Jay W. Forrester's consulting operation has a really good set of links to resources on System's Dynamics and DYNAMO. A really good starting point.
http://www.hps-inc.com/ High Performance Systems is the producer of the popular Stella graphical system's dynamics software.
http://pluto.lbs.lon.ac.uk/schools/wpaps/sysdyn.htm Working papers in systems dynamics (mostly applications to business) from the London Business School Systems Dynamics group.
http://chaos.fys.dtu.dk/~cek/cbs/links.htm A bibliography in systems dynamics
http://www.vensim.com Vensim is an alternative graphical systems dynamics modelling software (competitor of Stella) a free-ware version is available for evaluation.
http://www.kagi.com/madonna Madonna is a graphical systems dynamics modelling software (free ware, and registered versions) that accepts Stella models (and other things) as input. It runs big models and experiments faster than Stella, and can compile models in C.
   
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