Review of Software Platforms for Agent Based Models

Abstract

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 adaptive systems of interest to defence. The ABM toolkits evaluated against these requirements were BactoWars, EINSTein, MANA, MASON, NetLogo, Repast, Swarm and WISDOM-II.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA485784

Entities

People

  • Matthew Berryman

Organizations

  • Defence Science and Technology Group

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Adaptive Systems
  • Agent-Based Simulations
  • Algorithms
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Complex Systems
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Evolutionary Algorithms
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Information Science
  • Language
  • Object Oriented Programming
  • Object-Oriented Programming Language
  • Operating Systems
  • Programming Languages
  • Self Assembly
  • Self Organizing Systems

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Software Engineering.
  • Theoretical Analysis.