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Contents

Part I Introduction
1 Introduction ................................................................. 3
Bruce Edmonds and Ruth Meyer

2 Historical Introduction..................................................... 13
Klaus G. Troitzsch
3 Types of Simulation ........................................................ 23
Paul Davidsson and Harko Verhagen
4 Different Modelling Purposes ............................................. 39
Bruce Edmonds

Part II Methodology
5 Informal Approaches to Developing Simulation Models ............... 61
Emma Norling, Bruce Edmonds, and Ruth Meyer

6 What Software Engineering Has to Offer to Agent-Based
Social Simulation ........................................................... 81
Peer-Olaf Siebers and Franziska Klügl
7 Checking Simulations: Detecting and Avoiding Errors
and Artefacts ................................................................ 119
José M. Galán, Luis R. Izquierdo, Segismundo S. Izquierdo,
José I. Santos, Ricardo del Olmo, and Adolfo López-Paredes

8 The Importance of Ontological Structure: Why Validation
by ‘Fit-to-Data’ Is Insufficient ............................................ 141
Gary Polhill and Doug Salt
9 Verifying and Validating Simulations .................................... 173
Nuno David, Nuno Fachada, and Agostinho C. Rosa

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