Agent-Based Modeling for Artificial Societies

Agent-Based Modeling for Artificial Societies

Santa Fe Institute • 2024

This tutorial introduces Agent-Based Modeling with the python-based library Mesa, through the seminal Sugarscape with Traders model from Growing Artificial Societies by Joshua M. Epstein and Robert L. Axtell (1996).

Why stock markets crash?

Why stock markets crash?

Princton University • 2003

In his extraordinary book, Didier Sornette uses concepts from complexity science to explain the dynamics of stock market crashes. In particular, drawing on Ising model and network theory, he models how herding behavior among investors can lead to speculative bubbles and subsequent crashes.