cellular automata
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Agent Based Models to some extent evolved from Cellular Automata (CA), and because of this, and because one of the first useful CA models (the Schelling model) was by a social scientist and has been re-implemented many times with ABM, it is worth saying something about CAs before we then go on to look at ABM.
I got into the area through an interest in agent-based modelling and artificial life (through things like Lindenmeyer systems and cellular automata).