Comparison of agent-based modeling software
In the last few years, the agent-based modeling (ABM) community has developed several practical agent based modeling toolkits that enable individuals to develop agent-based applications. More and more such toolkits are coming into existence, and each toolkit has a variety of characteristics. Several individuals have made attempts to compare toolkits to each other (see references). Below is a chart intended to capture many of the features that are important to ABM toolkit users.
Comparison of ABM Software
| Platform | Primary Domain | Supporting Organization | License | Programming Language | Operating System | User Support | GIS Capabilities | 3D Capabilities | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Altreva Adaptive Modeler | Building agent-based market simulation models for price forecasting of real-world stocks and other securities | Altreva; Utrecht, Netherlands | Proprietary; free evaluation version available for research and experimentation (some limitations but no expiration) | No programming skills required. An adaptive form of genetic programming is used to create trading rules. User can select functions to be used in the genetic programming engine. | Windows 2000, NT 4.0, XP, Vista, 7, 8 or any other platform that supports Microsoft .Net 2.0 or higher | FAQ, documentation, tutorial, examples, forum, email support | Unknown | Yes Up to 3 agent properties can be visualized in real-time using 2D graphics and color | May 4, 2020 (Version 1.5.5) [1] |
| SCRIMMAGE | Swarm robotics | Georgia Tech Research Institute | LGPL v3 [2] | C++, Python | Linux | Documentation, tutorials, bug reports, features requests [3][4] | No | Yes | May 7, 2020 [5] |
| AnyLogic | Agent-based general purpose; also supports discrete event and system dynamics simulations. | The AnyLogic Company; Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois, USA | Proprietary; Free Personal Learning Edition available | Java | AnyLogic Model development environment is Java and Eclipse based application and has been tested on the following platforms: Microsoft Windows 10, x64; Microsoft Windows 8, x64; Microsoft Windows 7 SP1, x64; Apple Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) or later, Universal; SuSE Linux, x64 (with installed GTK+, libwebkitgtk-1.0-0, libudev, libssl 0.9.8 and newer); Ubuntu Linux 10.04 or above, x64 (with installed GTK+, libwebkitgtk-1.0-0, libudev, libssl 0.9.8 and newer); Linux Mint 17 or above, x64 (with installed GTK+, libwebkitgtk-1.0-0, libudev, libssl 0.9.8 and newer) | Demos; training; online community; ask a question; online help; tutorials; consulting services | Yes: supports both tile maps from free online providers and shapefile-based maps | Yes | January 23, 2020[6] |
| Cougaar | Multi-agent systems; highly distributed, scalable, reliable, survivable applications; Domain independent; large scale distributed, complex, data intensive (can be configured for small-scaled embedded applications) | Cougaar Software Inc.; Vienna, Virginia, USA]. | Cougaar Open Source License (COSL) is a modified version of the OSI approved BSD License | Java | Windows 98; Windows NT; Windows XP; Linux; Mac OS X; and Java-1.4-capable PDAs | FAQ; tutorials; slide shows; documentation; selected references; email support; public forums; mailing lists | Yes Integrated with OpenMap | No | 2012 [7] |
| Framsticks | 2D/3D simulations of (evolving) multi-agent systems and artificial life | Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland | Depends on module: GPL/LGPL/Propertiary | FramScript (similar to JavaScript) | Windows; Linux; *nix; Mac OS X | Email developer; tutorials; manual; FAQ; forums; API; documentation; selected publications; examples | Yes | Yes | July 14, 2015 [8] |
| JADE | Distributed applications composed of autonomous entities | Telecom Italia; Torino & Parma, Italy | LGPL version 2 | Java | Any Java Platform | FAQ; mailing list; defect list; tutorials; API; documentation | Unknown | Unknown | August 6, 2017 [9] |
| MASON | General purpose; social complexity, physical modeling, abstract modeling, AI/machine learning | George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA | Academic Free License (open source) | Java | Any Java Platform (1.3 or higher) | Mailing list; documentation; Tutorials; third party extensions; reference papers; API | Yes | Yes | September 3, 2019 (Version 20)[10] |
| Mesa | General purpose | George Mason University | Apache2 | Python3 | Any Python platform | Documentation; mailing list; Github issues; published papers; example models; tutorials | Yes, using the third party package Mesa-geo | Not explicitly supported, but could be through third party packages | May 6, 2020 (Version 0.8.7)[11] |
| NetLogo | Social and natural sciences; Help beginning users get started authoring models | Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA | GPL | NetLogo | Any Java Virtual Machine, version 6 or later. | Documentation; FAQ; selected references; tutorials; third party extensions; defect list; mailing lists | Yes | Yes | January 6, 2020 (Version 6.1.1) [12] |
| Repast | Social sciences | Argonne National Laboratory, University of Chicago; Lemont, Illinois, USA | BSD | Java (RepastS, RepastJ); Python (RepastPy); Visual Basic, .Net, C++, J#, C# (Repast.net) | Java version 1.4, although a 1.3 version for Mac OS X is available. To run the demonstration simulations, you'll need a Java Runtime Environment (RepastS, RepastJ); platform independent (RepastPy); Windows (Repast.net) | Documentation; mailing list; defect list; reference papers; external tools; tutorials; FAQ; examples | Yes | Yes | September 30, 2019 [13] |
| SARL | Distributed applications composed of autonomous entities | * Stéphane Galland, Burgundy Franche-Comté University, France; * Nicolas Gaud, Burgundy Franche-Comté University, France, * Sebastian Rodriguez, Advanced Informatics Technology Research Group, Tucuman, Argentina |
Apache version 2 | SARL, Java | Java version 1.8 or higher. | FAQ; mailing list; bug tracker; tutorials; API; documentation | Yes By using Java extension libraries, e.g. AFC. | Yes By using Java extension libraries, e.g. Java 3D. | October 26, 2019 [14] |
| Soar | General purpose AI; human performance modeling; learning (including explanation-based learning) | John E. Laird, Clare Bates Congdon, Mazin Assanie, Nate Derbinsky and Joseph Xu; Division of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA | BSD | Soar 1 to 5 in Lisp; Soar 6 in C; Java, C++, TCL | Windows 98; Windows ME; Windows 2000; Windows XP; Linux; Mac OS X | Documentation; FAQ; selected publications; defect list; third party extensions; mailing list; contact authors; tutorial; examples; wiki | Unknown | Unknown | July 28, 2017 (Version 9.6.0) [15] |
| StarLogo | Social and natural sciences; Educators; for students to model the behavior of decentralized systems; user friendly for K–12 students | Mitchel Resnick, Eric Klopfer, and others at MIT Media Lab and The MIT Scheller Teacher Education Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cambridge, MA, USA | Free (closed source) – Clearthought Software License, Version 1.0 | StarLogo (an extension of Logo) | Mac OS X v10.2.6 or higher with Java 1.4 installed; Windows; Unix; Linux (StarLogo does not seem to be compatible with Java 5/1.5 on Solaris) | Mailing list; tutorials; FAQ; bug list; documentation; developer contacts | Unknown | Unknown | November 27, 2018 [16] |
| Swarm | General purpose agent based | Swarm Development Group | GPL | Java; Objective-C | Windows; Linux; Mac OS X | Wiki; tutorials; examples; documentation; FAQ; selected publications; mailing lists | Unknown | Unknown | 2005 [17] |
References
- https://www.altreva.com/release_notes.html
- https://github.com/gtri/scrimmage/blob/master/LICENSE
- http://www.scrimmagesim.org/sphinx/html/index.html
- https://github.com/gtri/scrimmage/issues
- https://github.com/gtri/scrimmage
- "AnyLogic latest version - 8.5.1". www.anylogic.com. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
- https://archive.is/20121209111144/http://cougaar.org/
- http://www.framsticks.com/files/apps/history.xml
- https://jade.tilab.com/news/
- https://github.com/eclab/mason/releases
- "projectmesa/mesa". GitHub. Retrieved 2020-06-15.
- https://github.com/NetLogo/NetLogo/releases
- https://github.com/Repast/repast.simphony/releases
- http://www.sarl.io/news/index.html
- https://github.com/SoarGroup/Soar/releases
- https://www.slnova.org/#info
- http://www.swarm.org/wiki/Swarm:Stable_release
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