%0 Journal Article %T AN INTRODUCTION TO AGENT BASED MODELLING AND SIMULATION OF SOCIAL PROCESSES %A Armano Srbljinovic %A Ognjen Skunca %J Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems %D 2003 %I Croatian Interdisciplinary Society %X The paper provides an introduction to agent-based modelling and simulation of social processes. Reader is introduced to the worldview underlying agent-based models, some basic terminology, basic properties of agent-based models, as well as to what one can and what cannot expect from such models, particularly when they are applied to social-scientific investigation. Special attention is given to the issues of validation. %K agent-based models %K social simulation %K complexity %K complex adaptive systems %U http://indecs.eu/2003/indecs2003-pp1-8.pdf