This report presents a pilot study of the suitability of NetLogo, an agent-based software tool, in modelling guerilla warfare. In this study, a local civilian populace reports observed insurgent activity to peacekeepers with varying levels of enthusiasm depending on the reputation of the peacekeepers with those local populaces. A simulation model is developed in NetLogo to assess the suitabilit...

In the context of an Agent and Multi-Agent Systems course, satisfying the students demands for hands-on practice presents an interesting challenge. Educators have reported a variety of environments and techniques they use in order to increase active learning. In this paper we record our experience using NetLogo as part of the practical coursework that students need to carry out within an Intell...

This paper presents an original approach for detecting and tracking of objects in medical image sequence. We propose a multi-agent system (MAS) based on NetLogo platform for implementing parametric contour active model or snake. In NetLogo, mobile agents (turtles) move over a grid of stationary agents (patches). In our proposed MAS, each mobile agent represents a point of snake (snaxel) and it ...

1. NetLogo is a free software platform for implementing individual-based and agent-based models. However, NetLogo’s support of systematic design, performance and analysis of simulation experiments is limited. The statistics software R includes such support. 2. RNetLogo is an R package that links R and NetLogo: any NetLogo program can be controlled and run from R and model results can be transfe...

In this paper an agent-based simulation is developed in order to evaluate an Ambient Intelligence scenario based on agents. Many AmI applications are implemented through agents but they are not compared with any other existing alternative in order to evaluate the relative benefits of using them. The proposed simulation environment analyses such benefits using two evaluation criteria: First, mea...

Agent-based models (ABM) or individual-based models (IBM), as they are called in ecology and biology, are a widely used modeling approach when local interactions on the micro level are essential for the description of patterns on the macro level. This chapter is divided into four sections. In the first section, the history and definitions of ABMs in various research disciplines, namely computer...

The WiSafeCar (Wireless Traffic Safety Network between Cars) project aims at increasing the performance and reliability of the wireless transport and to provide traffic safety improvements. Within the context of this project, we have designed a Dynamic Carpooling System that will optimize the transport utilization by the ride sharing among people who usually cover the same route. An initial pro...

Connected Chemistry (Levy, Novak & Wilensky, 2005; 2006) is a curriculum package, designed for high-school students, as part of the Modeling Across the Curriculum (MAC) project (Gobert, Horwitz et al, 2003), in which students explore computer models of scientific phenomena. The Connected Chemistry curriculum focuses on topics in chemistry and employs multi-agent NetLogo models (Wilensky, 1999a)...