%0 Journal Article %T An Introduction to Agent Based Modelling and Simulation of Social Processes %A Armano Srbljinovic %A Ognjen Skunca %J Physics %D 2004 %I arXiv %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. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0409312v1