Agent-Based Modeling

• Syllabus                                       
           
• Click here to access all Agent-Based Modeling Track materials on the University of Michigan's website (the password is *issh* including the two asterisks)                                  

• Borgatti, Stephen P. and Everett, Martin G. "Models of core/periphery structures". Social Networks 21 (1999) 375-395
   
• Borgatti, Stephen P. et al. "Network Analysis in the Social Sciences". Science 323, 892 (2009); DOI: 10.1126/science.1165821 
   
• Burk, William J.; Steglich, Christian E.G. and Snijders Tom A.B. "Beyond dyadic interdependence: Actor-oriented models for co-evolving social networks and individual behaviors". International Journal of Behavioral Development 2007, 31 (4), 397–404; DOI: 10.1177/0165025407077762 
   
• Carley, Kathleen M. , forthcoming, “Dynamic Network Analysis” in the Summary of the NRC workshop on Social Network Modeling and Analysis, Ron Breiger and Kathleen M. Carley (Eds.), National Research Council 
   
• Granovetter, Mark S. "The Strength of Weak Ties". The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 78, No. 6 (May, 1973), 1360-1380.
   
• Newman, M. E. J. and Girvan, M.. "Finding and evaluating community structure in networks". http://arXiv:cond-mat/0308217 v1 11 Aug 2003
   
• Robins, G. et al., An introduction to exponential random graph (p*)
  models for social networks, Social Networks (2006), doi:10.1016/j.socnet.2006.08.002
   
• Valente, Thomas W. et al. "Effects of a Social-Network Method for Group Assignment Strategies on Peer-Led Tobacco Prevention Programs in Schools". American Journal of Public Health (93) Number 11,  Nov. 2003, 1837-1843.
   
• Valente, Thomas W. et al. "Community Coalitions as a System: Effects of Network Change on Adoption of Evidence-Based Substance Abuse Prevention". American Journal of Public Health (97) Number 5, May 2007, 880-886.
   
• Valente, Thomas W. "Social Network Influences on Health Behavior: Models, Methods, and Applications". In process: Oxford University Press, April 30, 2009

 
System Dynamics 

• Syllabus
 
• Presentation Slides - UPDATED!!!
                                                                

• Lecture 1: System Dynamics Modeling: What and Why
• Lecture 2: Overview of Modeling Process
• Lecture 3: Causal Loop Diagrams: Structure and Behavior
• Lecture 4: Stocks and Flows
• Lectures 5 & 6: Delays as Building Blocks
• Lectures 7 & 8: Infectious Disease Models
• Lecture 10: Parameter Estimation and Calibration
• Lecture 11: Sensitivity Analysis
• Lecture 12:Individual Level Modeling - Tradeoffs and Tools
• Vensim Tips
• Disaggregation & Subscripting
• Final Thoughts
• Jack Homer, PhD: System Dynamics Applications at the Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 
• Peter Hovmand, PhD: Group Model Building and Participatory Methods in System Dynamics Modeling (link to download zip file)
    

• Exercises - UPDATED!!!

      • Exercise 1
      • Exercise 2
      • Exercise 3
      • Exercise 4