A number of years ago, I had the pleasure of participating in a workshop led by Mike Gizzi and James Steiner; at that time, Mike had some excellent handouts and notes about the process of model building. Mike’s since moved on to other things, but via James’ site, I came across those notes – well worth considering if you are about to embark on the possibilities of agent modeling in your own research!

(click on the image for the tutorial).