Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science From the Bottom Up

This was the book from which I learnt about Sugarscape, and from there did my thesis (building my Bilateral Trade Simulator). It is a classic work on learning about emergence and mobile agents, about how global behaviour is more than the sum of individual behaviour, all using the world of Sugarscape.

For those interested in mobile agent technology and how it can be used in simulations, this is the book for you. For those who want to know how individual behaviour can affect social behaviour on a larger scale, this is the book for you. It may not be the most up-to-date text now, but it certainly serves as a very good introductory text to bring you into the world of emergent behaviour and multi-agent simulation.