Book and Resource ReviewsAgent-Based Modeling Toolkits NetLogo, RePast, and Swarm

A Docking Experiment: Swarm and Repast for Social Network Modeling

Axtell, Axelrod, Epstein and Cohen (1996) describe a docking or alignment process and experiment for verifying simulations. By comparing simulations built independently using different simulation tools, the docking or alignment process may discover bugs, misinterpretation of model specification, and inherent differences in toolkit implementations. If the behavior of the multiple simulations are...

Review of Software Platforms for Agent Based Models

This report reviews both general agent based modelling (ABM) and battlefield-specific ABM toolkits against established criteria, namely flexibility, documentation, speed, and facilities. The other main focus of this report is to consider which ABM toolkits are best suited to studying self-organisation, adaptation, and causality in networks, since these are all essential parts of complex adaptiv...

Agent- and Individual-based Modeling with NetLogo: Introduction and new NetLogo Extensions

Agent-based models (ABM) or individual-based models (IBM), as they are called in ecology and biology, are a widely used modeling approach when local interactions on the micro level are essential for the description of patterns on the macro level. This chapter is divided into four sections. In the first section, the history and definitions of ABMs in various research disciplines, namely computer...

Agent-based Modeling

The theory and practice of agent-based modeling is reviewed, and agent-based modeling toolkits are evaluated and discussed. A tractable selection of toolkits, RepastPy, Repast Simphony, and breve are then employed to develop and visualize a series of increasingly sophisticated agent-based models, starting with a simple network-interaction diagram and proceeding onto the Boids 3D flock simulatio...

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