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Most of the literature suggested for further reading has already been mentioned. Epstein and Axtell’s (1996) work on generating societies gives a broad overview of early applications of agent-based modelling. Epstein (2006) goes even further as he defines this approach as the oncoming paradigm in social science. For the state of the art of agent-based modelling in the social sciences at the onset of this approach, the proceedings of early workshops and conferences on computational social science are still worth reading (Gilbert and Doran 1994; Gilbert and Conte 1995; Conte et al. 1997; Troitzsch et al. 1996).
And many early papers on computational social science were recently republished (Gilbert 2010).
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Troitzsch, K.G. (2013). Historical Introduction. In: Edmonds, B., Meyer, R. (eds) Simulating Social Complexity. Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-93813-2_2
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