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HereisalistofthecurrentagentbasedmodelingsimulationenvironmentsthatIamawareof.Ifyou
haveorknowofotherABMsimulationenvironments,pleaseemailmeandIwillpostithere.Youmay
alsowanttodownloadtheserecentpaperssurveyinganumberofagentbasedmodelingtoolsand
simulators:SurveyofAgentBasedModellingandSimulationTools(alsosee)andToolsoftheTrade:
ASurveyofVariousAgentBasedModelingPlatforms.
Amp.TheAMPprojectprovidesextensibleframeworksandexemplarytoolsforrepresenting,editing,
generating,executingandvisualizingagentbasedmodels(ABMs)andanyotherdomainrequiring
spatial,behavioralandfunctionalfeatures.
Ascape.Aninnovativetoolfordevelopingandexploringgeneralpurposeagentbasedmodels.
Breve.Afree,opensourcesoftwarepackagewhichmakesiteasytobuild3Dsimulationsofmulti
agentsystemsandartificiallife.
EntoramaEntoramaisa3Dmultiagentmodelingandsimulationtooldesignedforsimulationof
decentralizedsystems.WithEntoramayoucancreatehundredsofagents,definetheirindividual
behaviorandobservebehaviorthatemergesonthecollectivelevel.Thegoalofthisprojectistoallowa
widevarietyofmodelswhilesimplifyingthemodeldevelopmentprocessandeliminatingprogramming
overhead.
FLAME(FlexibleLargescaleAgentbasedModelingEnvironment)isaverygeneralsystemfor
buildingdetailedagentbasedmodelsthatgenerateshighlyefficientsimulationsoftwarethatcanrunon
anycomputingplatforminparticularitcanberundirectlyonHighPerformanceparallel
supercomputers(HPC)asfarasweknowthisistheonlyframeworkwiththiscapability.Itisalso
availableinaGPU(graphicsprocessingunit)version.Itcanalsoberunonanydesktoporlaptopon

Macs,WindowsorLinux.Itispossibletosetuplargescalemodelswithmillionsofagents.Additional
FLAMEdocumentscanbefoundhere,andmoreinformationatCCPForageandatFLAMEGPU.
ProjectsusingFLAMEcanbefoundhereandhere.
GAMAisasimulationplatform,whichaimsatprovidingfieldexperts,modellers,andcomputer
scientistswithacompletemodellingandsimulationdevelopmentenvironmentforbuildingspatially
explicitmultiagentsimulations.IthasbeendevelopedbytheresearchteamMSI(locatedintheIFI,
Hanoi,andpartoftheIRD/UPMCInternationalResearchUnitUMMISCO)since2007.
MASONisafastdiscreteeventmultiagentsimulationlibrarycoreinJava,designedtobethefoundation
forlargecustompurposeJavasimulations.
MASSisaMultiAgentSimulationSuiteconsistsoffourmajorcomponentsbuiltaroundasimulation
core.
MASyVisaMultiAgentSystemVisualizationplatform.AusercanwriteasimpleABMsimulationin
C,creatingagentimagesinGimp,andMASyVprovidesasetoflibrariesoffunctionswhichtheclient
canmakeuseoftospeaktotheUIwhichtakescareofdisplayingandmovingtheagents.Italsocomes
withafewpremadesimulationswhichcansaveonesometimeiftheyaredoingsomethingsimilar(e.g.
antseatingandlayingpheromonetrails,infectionspreadingcelltocellorthroughthediffusionofvirus
withorwithoutthepresenceofimmunecells).MASyVisanopensourcesoftware,distributedundera
GPLlicenceonSourceForgeandaffiliatedmirrors.
MetaABM.Supportsahighlevelarchitecturefordesigning,executingandsystematicallystudying
ABMmodels.
NetLogo.Acrossplatformmultiagentprogrammablemodelingenvironment.
Player/Stage.FreeSoftwaretoolsforrobotandsensorapplications.
PSIisanenvironmentforrunningagentbasedsimulations.Itiscrossplatform,withbinariesavailable
forWin32.
Repast.Afreeandopensourceagentbasedmodelingtoolkitthatsimplifiesmodelcreationanduse.
Swarm.AnObjectiveCandTCLbasedsocialcomplexitysimulators.
SeSAm.SeSAm(ShellforSimulatedAgentSystems)providesagenericenvironmentformodelling
andexperimentingwithagentbasedsimulation.Wespeciallyfocusedonprovidingatoolfortheeasy
constructionofcomplexmodels,whichincludedynamicinterdependeciesoremergentbehaviour.
SPARK.(SimplePlatformforAgentbasedRepresentationofKnowledge)isacrossplatform,free
softwareformultiscaleagentbasedmodeling(ABM).
StarLogo.Aprogrammablemodelingenvironmentforexploringtheworkingsofdecentralized
systems.Theirolderversioncanbefoundathttp://education.mit.edu/starlogoandtheirnewerversion,
StarLogoTNG,canbefoundherehttp://education.mit.edu/projects/starlogotng.
TerraME.isaprogrammingenvironmentforspatialdynamicalmodelling.Itsupportscellular
automata,agentbasedmodels,andnetworkmodelsrunningin2Dcellspaces.TerraMEprovidesan
interfacetoTerraLibgeographicaldatabase,allowingmodelsdirectaccesstogeospatialdata.Its

modellinglanguagehasinbuiltfunctionsthatmakesiteasiertodevelopmultiscaleandmultiparadigm
modelsforenvironmentalapplications.
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