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The goal of this section is to understand the basic concepts of agent-based modelling of socio-ecological-technical systems, through a practical introduction to NetLogo, its fundamental code parts, basic NetLogo language, a first agent-based model, some experiments and analysis. The course uses the iterative modelling cycle introduced in Modelling & Simulation as a guideline and frequently switches between ABM theory, the NetLogo software, the NetLogo programming language, and back. The aim is to get the reader through a whole modelling cycle while doing some hands-on exercises with the software, learning the language, implementing a first model, and analysing and refining the model.

This course is based on the first five chapters of Grimm, V., & Railsback, S. F. (2011) “Agent-Based and Individual-Based Modeling: A Practical Introduction”. We strongly recommend this course book as an excellent self-study guide for further introduction into NetLogo for agent-based modelling.