What are some software resources on multi-agent policy simulation?
• Where can I find resources on agent-based simulation in economics? • What are some software resources on multi-agent policy simulation? A number of agent simulation toolkits are now available, including Swarm, Ascape, StarLogo, and Repast. Swarm is a software package for multi-agent simulation of complex systems, originally developed at the Santa Fe Institute. Swarm is intended to be a useful tool for researchers in a variety of disciplines. The basic architecture of Swarm is the simulation of collections of concurrently interacting agents: with this architecture, we can implement a large variety of agent based models. The Swarm software is available to the general public under GNU licensing terms. The main Swarm website, with the software, is at http://www.swarm.org/, and a related website is http://me.in-berlin.de/~rws/swarm.html. Ascape is developed by the Center on Social and Economic Dynamics (CSED), Brookings Institution, and has a website at http://www.brook.edu/dynamics/model