We use an agent-based modeling software, NetLogo, to simulate fabric drape by applying a modified mass spring system. This model provides an application of harmonic motion to textiles and fashion, fields not typically discussed in the undergraduate differential equations classroom. Euler’s method is coded into the model to solve a system of ordinary differential equations describing the fabric’...

Issues related to crowd evacuations have become extremely important and gained the attention both of practitioners and public authorities. Understanding the dynamics and the emerging behaviour of the crowd during evacuation is a challenge under any circumstances. By creating a synthetic population it is possible to employ agent-based modelling (ABM) techniques to build artificial laboratories [...

In this paper, the effectiveness of the NetLogo programming environment is investigated, as regards assisting students (of various levels of achievement) of the Greek Higher Secondary Education, to understand how some simple ecosystems are structured and to model the systemic behaviour of such ecosystems by conceptualising their Complexity features. This paper is part of a wider research on tea...

The use of agent-based simulation models in NetLogo for research is growing rapidly in a number of fields of science and engineering, including in computer science, for example for analyzing the performances of asynchronous search techniques based on distributed constraints. Distributed Constraint programming (DisCSP/DCOP) is a programming approach used to describe and solve large classes of pr...

In this paper, we assess five tools that allow the specification and execution of Multi-agent based simulations. These tools are NetLogo, MASON, Ascape,

Five software platforms for scientific agent-based models (ABMs) were reviewed by implementing example models in each. NetLogo is the highest-level platform, providing a simple yet powerful programming language, built-in graphical interfaces, and comprehensive documentation. It is designed primarily for ABMs of mobile individuals with local interactions in a grid space, but not necessarily clum...

Models are the core of scientific theory. Some researchers have argued that modeling is fundamental to scientific inquiry (e.g. Clement, 2000). There has been increased literature on how to use inquiry and modeling for science learning. However, challenges still exist. For example, how do different modeling tools and learning activities shape student learning trajectories? How do they impact st...

The overall goal of this research is to explore the efficacy of learning the physics of electricity with NetLogo agent-based models (ABM) where the degree of learner scaffolding is varied. Learners were given four tasks for an ABM in each class period. The experimental condition involved Productive Failure (PF), where one group of learners initially used a set of ABMs in an unscaffolded manner ...