I'm making up an assignment for students here to begin learning about
agent modeling.  Looking through the MASON applet is a good starting
point.

http://cs.gmu.edu/~eclab/projects/mason/applet/

Looks like the "About" portions are blank (?)  Does this "About"
information exist?  If not, maybe the students here can research the
background of these projects on the applet page, and write up "About"
backgrounds. These background descriptions can be sent to you, and added
to the applet.