This may be a good place to start: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9639.html http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9639.html It's a textbook on agent-based model

This may be a good place to start: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9639.html http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9639.html It's a textbook on agent-based models written by an ecologist (where an awful lot of disease modeling is done). I believe there's a cheaper paperback version on Amazon, and they use NetLogo, which is pretty gentle computationally.