S. Taylor 
Agent-based Modeling and Simulation [PDF ebook] 

1. Introduction 2. Tutorial on Agent-based Modelling and Simulation 3. Some Insights into the Emergence of Agent-based Modelling 4. Discrete-event Simulation is Alive and Kicking! 5. An Application of Agent-based Simulation to the Management of Hospital-acquired Infection 6. An Agent-based Simulation Approach for the New Product Diffusion of a Novel Biomass Fuel 7. Agent-based Modelling and Simulation of Urban Evacuation: Relative Effectiveness of Simultaneous and Staged Evacuation Strategies 8. Towards the Development of a Simulator for Investigating the Impact of People Management Practices on Retail Performance 9. A Multi-agent Simulation of the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain 10. Workflow Scheduling Using Multi-agent Systems in a Dynamically Changing Environment 11. Credit Risk: An Agent-based Model of Post-credit Decision Actions and Credit Losses in Banks 12. The Hybrid War Model: A Complex Adaptive Model of Complex Urban Conflict 13. The Development of New Infantry Tactics During the Early Eighteenth Century: A Computer Simulation Approach to Modern Military History 14. A Generic Testing Framework for Agent-based Simulation Models 15. Successful Approaches for Teaching Agent-based Simulation

Dr Simon J E Taylor is Reader in the Department of Computer Science at Brunel University, UK. He founded the COTS Simulation Package Interoperability Standards Group under the Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization and co-founded the Journal of Simulation. He is a member of the ACM SIGSIM Steering Committee. He has published many simulation-related articles and is changing the practice of simulation in industry with advanced computing techniques such as Cloud Computing. He is also working with African scientists to develop ICT-based research infrastructures.