Repast Simphony 1.0 Released
December 3, 2007 by Michael J. North, MBA, Ph.D. (north@anl.gov) (Argonne National Laboratory Decision and Information Sciences Division Center for Complex Adaptive Agent Systems Simulation)
Repast Simphony 1.0 was released today!
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Repast Simphony is a free and open source agent-based modeling toolkit that offers users a rich variety of features including the following:
- An optional point-and-click model development environment that generates Java classes and seamlessly integrates with hand written Java and Groovy components.
- A pure Java point-and-click model execution environment that includes built-in results logging and graphing tools as well as automated connections to a variety of optional external tools including:
- The R statistics environment,
- The VisAD scientific visualization package,
- The Weka data mining platform,
- Many popular spreadsheets,
- The MATLAB computational mathematics environment, and
- The iReport visual report designer.
- An extremely flexible hierarchically nested definition of space including the ability to do point-and-click and modeling and visualization of:
- 2D environments,
- 3D environments,
- Networks including full integration with the JUNG network modeling library,
- Geographical spaces including full Geographical Information Systems (GIS) support
- A range of data storage “freeze dryers” for model check pointing and restoration including:
- Text file storage
- Database storage
- A fully concurrent multithreaded discrete event scheduler.
- Libraries for genetic algorithms, neural networks, regression, random number generation, and specialized mathematics.
- An automated Monte Carlo simulation framework which supports multiple modes of model results optimization.
- Built-in tools for integrating external models.
- Full object-orientation.
- A point-and-click model deployment system.
- Availablity on virtually all modern computing platforms including Windows, Mac OS, and Linux.
Repast 3
The Repast 3 website can found here.
Acknowledgements
Thanks to the people at "YourKit Java Profiler" for providing us with an open source license for their Java profiler.