• Introduction
• Preliminary notes
• Stupid model: models list

Introduction

This tutorial is based on the article: StupidModel and Extensions: A template and teaching tool for agent-based modeling platforms by Railsback, Lytinen and Grimm. It is particularly well fitted for this purpose as the complexity increase smoothly and it allows to compare GAMA to other well known platforms such as Mason, Netlogo, Swarm (java & objective-C): (see here for implementations).

Preliminary notes

Any uncertainity that have appeared within the formulation of the previously cited paper have been dealt using the netlogo implementation.

Stupid model: models list

Here the list of the different models that you will build while following the tutorial. This list is the same as in the original paper though some intermediary steps have been added in some cases. For each model we will present its purpose and an explicit formulation (from the original authors) and possibly some disambiguation or speficities due to the GAMA platform.

1. Basic stupidModel
2. Bug growth
3. Habitat cells and ressource
4. Cell and bug probes
5. Parameters and parameters displays
6. Histogram output
7. Stopping the model
8. File output
9. Randomized agent actions
10. Sorted agent actions
11. Optimal movement
12. Bug mortality and reproduction
13. Population abundance graph
14. Random normal initial size
15. Habitat data frome file input
16. Predators