Agent Based Modeling in NetLogo

NetLogo

See NetLogo overviews for an overview of NetLogo.

Agent-Based Modeling in NetLogo

NetLogo is primarily an IDE for developing agent-based models. Here is how some of the important concepts map onto NetLogo concepts:

Environment       = World
Mobile Agent      = Turtle
Stationary Agent  = Patch

For example, here's a screen shot of Sugarscape:

Programming NetLogo

Most of our models instantiate the ABM Framework.

A brief description of this framework can be found in NetLogo Overview #2.