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Agent-based modeling and simulation (ABMS) is a new approach to modeling systems
comprised of interacting autonomous agents. ABMS promises to have far-reaching effects …

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and junior scholars come to world-systems analysis as a well-established approach …

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This paper provides an up-to-date history of archaeological computer simulation, starting
with the early 1970s simulation models, but paying particular attention to those developed …

Extensively revised and updated, this popular text presents an accessible yet rigorous
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