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Dear Jack,

RePast is one excellent option:

http://repast.sourceforge.net/

In fact, coincidentally, Laszlo Gulyas and I will be giving a combined
videoconference (for 2-way interaction) and webcast (1-way interaction only)
on exactly this topic this next week, Tuesday, 15 May. If you would be
interested, please follow up with me off-line.

There are other agent-based modeling options too. RePast is just the one
that I happen to be most familiar with, but also very satisfied with. :)
Gulya could certainly tell you more.

Best regards,
Elenna


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Jack Iwashyna
Verzonden: Monday, May 07, 2007 10:27 PM
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Onderwerp: Advice on Simulation Software for Networked Agents

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Colleagues,

I am interested in conducting simulations of networked agents.

In particular, I would like agents to be able to:
  - have wide variety of different states (say be able to take on a
value from 1 to 100, integers)
  - update their states based on both interactions with other networked
agents
  - update their states based on the results of draws from probability
distributions

as well as, but less importantly:
  - have decision rules for when they should implement new connections
or disconnect from other agents

Any recommendations?  I imagine doing this across a scale ranging
from 20 agents to 10,000 networked agents, each having one to very
many connections with other agents.

(Ideally, such a program would also be easy to use, easy to output
the results for statistical analysis, and have great documentation,
too.)

I appreciate your help.

  Jack


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