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Simulation games

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• The Complete Wargames Handbook (based on the second edition, 1992), by James F. Dunnigan (HTML at hundredyearswar.com)
• Little Wars: A Game for Boys From Twelve Years of Age to One Hundred and Fifty and for That More Intelligent Sort of Girl Who Likes Boys' Games and Books; With an Appendix on Kriegspiel, by H. G. Wells (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio)
• Little Wars: A Game for Boys From Twelve Years of Age to One Hundred and Fifty and for That More Intelligent Sort of Girls Who Like Boys' Games and Books (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., c1913), by H. G. Wells (page images at HathiTrust)

• Jet Fighter School II: More Training for Computer Fighter Pilots (1988), by Richard G. Sheffield (illustrated HTML at flightsimbooks.com)
• Jet Fighter School: Air Combat Simulator Tactics and Maneuvers (1987), by Richard G. Sheffield (illustrated HTML at flightsimbooks.com)

• Computer Battlegames (London: Usborne Pub., c1982), by D. Isaaman and Jenny Tyler, contrib. by Bob Merry, illust. by Rex Archer, Jim Bamber, Tony Baskeyfield, Martin Newton, and Graham Round (PDF at Usborne and Google)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Game Theory (second edition, c2018), by Giacomo Bonanno (PDF with commentary at UC Davis)
• Economics and Language: Five Essays (2000), by Ariel Rubinstein (PDF in Israel)
• Economic Fables (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2012), by Ariel Rubinstein
  • PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • page images at Google
• The Strategic Constitution (prepublication version, 1999), by Robert Cooter (PDF at bepress.com)
• Modeling Bounded Rationality (1998), by Ariel Rubinstein (PDF in Israel)
• Rules, Games, and Common-Pool Resources (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1994), ed. by Elinor Ostrom, Roy Gardner, and James Walker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bargaining and Markets (electronic edition; with corrections from 1990 edition), by Martin J. Osborne and Ariel Rubinstein (PDF files with commentary at Toronto)

• More Games of No Chance (2002), ed. by Richard J. Nowakowski (PDF files with commentary at msri.org)
• Games of No Chance (1996), ed. by Richard J. Nowakowski (PDF files with commentary at msri.org)

• A Practical Manual on the Monte Carlo Method for Random Walk Problems (Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory of the University of California, 1957), by E. D. Cashwell and C. J. Everett, contrib. by O. W. Rechard (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Compleat Strategyst: Being a Primer on the Theory of Games of Strategy (revised edition, c1966), by J. D. Williams (PDF with commentary at rand.org)
• Games of Strategy: Theory and Applications (1961), by Melvin Dresher (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• Think Bayes (Needham, MA: Green Tea Press, c2012), by Allen Downey (PDF and HTML with commentary at Green Tea Press)
• Bayesian Spectrum Analysis and Parameter Estimation (New York: Springer-Verlag, 1988), by G. Larry Bretthorst (PDF at wustl.edu)
• Bayesian Methods in the Search for MH370 (Cham et al.: Springer Open, c2016), by Samuel Davey, Neil Gordon, Ian Holland, Mark Rutten, and Jason Williams (PDF and Epub with commentary at SpringerLink)
• Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning (free online edition, c2014), by David Barber (PDF with commentary in the UK)

• Bayesian Analysis (2006-) (full serial archives)

• Design of Comparative Experiments (prepublication draft version, 2008), by R. Bailey (PDF files with commentary in the UK)
• Principles of Experimental Design for Art Conservation Research (1992), by Terry J. Reedy and Chandra L. Reedy (PDF and page images at getty.edu and Google)
• The Experimental Side of Modeling (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2018), ed. by Isabelle F. Peschard and Bas C. Van Fraassen (HTML with commentary at umn.edu)

• Experimental Statistics (National Bureau of Standard handbook #91; Washington: GPO, 1963), by Mary Gibbons Natrella (page images at HathiTrust)

• Modeling and Simulation in Python (version 3.4.3; Needham, MA: Green Tea Press, 2017), by Allen Downey (PDF with commentary at Green Tea Press)
• Simulation of Information and Decision Systems in the Firm (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, c1963), by Charles P. Bonini (page images at HathiTrust)

• Modeling and Simulation in Manufacturing and Defense Acquisition: Pathways to Success, by National Research Council Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Practical Artificial Intelligence Programming With Java (third edition, c2008), by Mark Watson (PDF at markwatson.com)
• Artificial Intelligence and Responsive Optimization (second edition, 2003), by Mohammad Khosnevisan, Sukanto Bhattacharya, and Florentin Smarandache (PDF at UNM)
• Are We Spiritual Machines? Ray Kurzweil vs. the Critics of Strong A.I. (c2002), ed. by Jay W. Richards, contrib. by Ray Kurzweil, John R. Searle, Michael J. Denton, William A. Dembski, Thomas S. Ray, and George F. Gilder (at kurzweilai.net)
• Artificial Intelligence (third edition, reprinted with corrections; Reading, MA et al.: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1993), by Patrick Henry Winston (PDF at MIT)
• The Age of Intelligent Machines (c1992), by Ray Kurzweil (at kurzweilai.net)
• Artificial Intelligence and Games (2018), by Georgios N. Yannakakis and Julian Togelius (PDF with commentary at gameaibook.org)
• The Boundaries of Humanity: Humans, Animals, Machines (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), ed. by James J. Sheehan and Morton Sosna (HTML at UC Press)
• Artificial Intelligence Through Prolog (1988), by Neil C. Rowe (HTML at nps.edu)
• How Mobile Robots can Self-Organise a Vocabulary (Berlin: Language Science Press, c2015), by Paul Vogt
  • PDF wih commentary at langsci-press.org
  • PDF at OAPEN
• Applications of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence to Reduce Risk and Improve Effectiveness: A Study for the United States Army (1983), by National Research Council Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems (page images with commentary at NAP)
• When Things Start to Think (c1999), by Neil A. Gershenfeld (HTML with commentary at kurzweilai.net)
• Elements of Robotics (Cham: Springer Open, c2018), by M. Ben-Ari and Francesco Mondada (PDF and EPub with commentary at EPFL and Springer)
• Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp (c1992), by Peter Norvig (multiple formats with commentary at Github)
• From Bricks to Brains: The Embodied Cognitive Science of LEGO Robots (Edmonton: AU Press, c2010), by Michael Robert William Dawson, Brian Dupuis, and Michael Wilson (PDF with commentary at AU Press)
• The Computer Revolution in Philosophy: Philosophy, Science and Models of Mind (1978, with added notes and corrections), by Aaron Sloman (HTML and PDF with commentary in the UK)
• The Origin and Its Meaning, by Roger Ellman (PDF files at the-origin.org)

• Modeling and Simulation in Python (version 3.4.3; Needham, MA: Green Tea Press, 2017), by Allen Downey (PDF with commentary at Green Tea Press)
• The Nature of Code (c2012), by Daniel Shiffman, ed. by Shannon Fry, illust. by Zannah Marsh (illustrated HTML with commentary at natureofcode.com)
• A Practical Manual on the Monte Carlo Method for Random Walk Problems (Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory of the University of California, 1957), by E. D. Cashwell and C. J. Everett, contrib. by O. W. Rechard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Analog Simulation: Solution of Field Problems (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1958), by Walter J. Karplus (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Introduction to Statistical Learning, With Applications in R (corrected first edition and second edition; 2017 and 2021), by Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie, and Robert Tibshirani (PDF with commentary at statlearning.com)
• Modeling with Data (Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2009), by Ben Klemens (PDF with commentary at modelingwithdata.org)

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