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Is there any support in GAMA (https://gama-platform.org/) to implement hybrid models, similar to what you can do in AnyLogic (https://www.anylogic.com/)? I am in particular interested in the...
01 July 2023 6,887 1 View
I have just downloaded the latest version of the agent-based modeling and simulation platform Repast Simphony (v2.8) and wanted to go through a related System Dynamics tutorial (from 2013) but...
07 July 2021 7,738 5 View
We are working on a project on developing methods for functional agent-based modelling. We have implemented a SIR model using Haskell and Yampa, a functional reactive programming library. Is it...
29 March 2018 9,189 5 View
In the context of urban (spatial explicit) modelling, what is the difference between agent based simulation (ABS) and micro simulation (MS)? Both are individual based modelling approaches. Are ABS...
01 August 2017 8,255 17 View
I was just chatting to one of my colleagues about a workshop I recently attended on "Agent-Based Modeling of Environmental Challenges and Climate Policy". There I met many economists that talked...
30 March 2017 8,655 2 View
I am trying to define a social simulation model using UML diagrams. Previously I defined an algorithm using a logic flow chart. Is the "activity diagram" the UML equivalent of a "logic flow...
12 April 2016 1,232 13 View
Could you provide me with some references to traffic simulation models (papers or tutorials) that use Repast? My aim is to use Repast to do some basic traffic simulation in "The Cloud". I found an...
08 March 2016 7,220 3 View
I am setting up a new CompSci Software Engineering module where students learn to work with larger, third party software systems, and the challenges associated with this. They will have to...
16 February 2016 3,249 7 View
My research background is Operations Research and Social Simulation. More recently I got involved in discussing ways of linking Behavioural Economics models/ideas to Social Simulation. One method...
15 March 2015 5,417 5 View
I came across the GOF (Gang of Four) Advice "Favor Aggregation over Inheritance". http://www.netobjectives.com/competencies/favor-aggregation-over-inheritance Can you provide a concrete example...
09 February 2015 580 6 View
I am running an MSc Computer Science module "Simulation for Decision Support" where I have changed the assessment from "exam + individual coursework" to "individual coursework only". This was done...
05 August 2014 1,555 8 View
There was recently a post in SIMSOC (Newsgroup discussing the use of Computer Simulation in the Social Sciences) asking for examples of agent-based models that have actually been used to support...
06 December 2013 3,311 10 View
I am interested in better understanding Non-Player Character (NPC) design in games in order to apply the ideas to social and socio-economic agent-based simulation. I was wondering if there are any...
24 November 2013 3,090 6 View
We are trying to reduce the amount of assessment to make everyone's life easier. In my module "G54SIM: Simulation for Decision Support" which I teach in the School of Computer Science we currently...
08 November 2013 2,712 6 View
I am interested in building a simulation model that helps to better understand elephants and their behavior in captivity. The idea is to use an agent based modelling approach. Currently I am...
08 November 2013 5,288 1 View
I am a computer scientist trying to build agent based operations research and social simulation models using UML statecharts. I start my conceptualization by thinking about who are the actors to...
07 November 2013 8,562 6 View
We are attempting to develop a novel agent-based simulation modelling framework based on principles adopted from software engineering (object oriented analysis and design) to help studying the...
18 October 2013 5,036 2 View
I am looking for examples where multi-agent system frameworks (software agent templates) have been used to define the agents of social simulation models. To give you an example of what I am...
16 October 2013 2,307 48 View
I am trying to understand the different motivations of Game Theorists, Experimental Economists, Agent Based Computational Economists, and other agent based modellers (e.g. Social Scientist,...
01 September 2013 7,636 4 View
I found a description of this in several books about artificial intelligence for game developers [e.g. Buckland (2006) Programming Game AI by Example - Chapter 2; Bourg and Seemann (2004) AI for...
03 July 2013 5,842 2 View
We just added a plea for more interdisciplinary work between the epidemiological modelling community and the social simulation community to develop more credible models for a COVID19 pandemic...
01 January 1970 8,555 3 View
