John Eikenberry's AI/ALife mini-howto: http://www.ai.uga.edu/students/jae/ai.html
Business Week 26 Feb 96 p75: ARTIFICIAL-LIFE SIMULATION SOFTWARE Software developed at New Mexico's Santa Fe Institute uses 3-D satellite maps of a geographical region and software "agents" that model such variables as weather and crop yields to study why an ancient Native American culture collapsed suddenly in the 12th century. The artificial-life simulation software, called Swarm, produces a generic modeling tool for studying ecological systems, economic theories and other complex systems. (Business Week 26 Feb 96 p75)