Agent-Based Modeling Courses and Certifications

Computer Simulations

55 ratings

Grow artificial societies from the bottom up: study Schelling's segregation model and Sugarscape, then code your own agent-based model in NetLogo.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Introduction to Agent-Based Modeling

Build agent-based models from scratch in NetLogo: assemble model components, analyze results, and handle verification, validation, and replication across economics, biology, and political science.

• Complexity Explorer
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Introduction to Agent-Based Modeling (Summer 2026)

Build agent-based models from scratch in NetLogo: design agents and model components, analyze results, and verify, validate, and replicate models of complex systems.

• Complexity Explorer
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Introduction to Complexity

151 ratings

In this course you'll learn about the tools used by scientists to understand complex systems. The topics you'll learn about include dynamics, chaos, fractals, information theory, self-organization, agent-based modeling, and networks.

• Complexity Explorer
• 10 weeks, 3-6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

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The Secret Agents of Modeling - Understanding Agent-Based Modeling with Python

Discover how Agent-Based Modeling breaks down complex systems into manageable components, enabling efficient experimentation and hypothesis testing using Python's Mesa package, with practical applications in finance and social systems.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Complexity Explorer

Data Collector Model in Agent-Based Modeling with Mesa - Session 18

Learn to implement a Data Collector Model in Mesa, enhancing your agent-based modeling skills with Python and improving data analysis capabilities.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Data Science Festival

Agent-Based Models 101 - Introduction to Micro-Decision Modeling for Business Applications

Discover agent-based models and their business applications through micro-level decisions that reveal macro population behaviors, with practical advertising simulation examples.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The National Centre for Research Methods

Agent Based Modeling

An introduction to agent-based modeling for social research, covering model analysis, uncertainty, psychological experiments, documentation, and simulation provenance.

• YouTube
• 2 hours 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Introduction to Agent-based Modeling

93 ratings

This course will explore how to use agent-based modeling to understand and examine a widely diverse and disparate set of complex problems.

• Complexity Explorer
• Not Currently Offered
• Free Online Course

Coursera

Mycelium Growth with NetLogo Web

59 ratings at Coursera

Build an agent-based model simulating how fungal mycelium grows, using NetLogo Web and the basics of the Logo programming language.

• Coursera
• 1 hour 45 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Agent-Based Models with Python: An Introduction to Mesa

Build the Sugarscape with Traders model step by step in Python with Mesa: agentize a landscape, code trader movement, trade rules, data collectors, and batch runs.

• Complexity Explorer
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Complexity Explorer

Agent-Based Models with Python - An Introduction to Mesa

Master agent-based modeling using Python's Mesa library through hands-on Sugarscape implementation, covering agent creation, movement, trading, and data collection techniques.

• YouTube
• 4 hours 45 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Julia Programming Language

Agents.jl and the Next Chapter in Agent-Based Modelling

An overview of Agents.jl for modeling complex dynamical systems through interacting agents in Julia.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Complexity Explorer

Initialize Traders in Agent-Based Models with Python - Session 7

Learn to initialize traders in agent-based models using Mesa, a Python library for complex systems simulation and analysis.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Wolfram

Equivalent Recursive Systems for General Agent-Based Models

Discover how to formulate generalized agent-based models as nested recursive functions in this technical exploration of computational modeling approaches.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video