GROWLab: A Toolbox for Social Simulation
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چکیده
GROWLab (Geographic Research on War Laboratory) is a software toolbox to facilitate the modeling, simulation, analysis, and validation of complex social processes, with a special focus on geographic conflict research. GROWLab is designed as a collection of independent software components, which is intended to bring the development of agent-based simulations to the next level of complexity and realism. In this paper, we present our motivation guiding the design of GROWLab and the toolkit's key features. GROWLab is still at an early stage of development, but has already been used for various applications. We exemplify the use of GROWLab with some well-known models from the social sciences. GROWLab is available on our website: http://www.icr.ethz.ch/research/growlab
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