Despite being one of the world’s largest railways networks, with a daily transportation of over 25 million passengers and 2.8 million tons of freight, the Indian Railways perform their signaling, traffic management and trains scheduling activities in a completely manual way. The lack of automation causes not only significant delays, but also frequent collisions where passengers die or remain se...

Article history: Received 19 January 2016 Received in revised form 16 September 2016 Accepted 17 September 2016 Available online 15 October 2016 This paper presents an agent based model simulating animal tracking datasets for individual animals based on observed habitat use characteristics, movement behaviours and environmental context. The model is presented as an alternative simulation method...

Complex systems concepts are important to learn for both scientific and pedagogical reasons. However, research has shown that these concepts are difficult for students to learn. In this paper we present a series of microworlds called “BeeSmart” for students to engage in a constructionist learning experience through manipulating NetLogo models, discussing with peers, and co-constructing meanings...

Primarily, we describe a computational model of organizations where agents rapidly adapt to changing environmental conditions. We consider an organizational model with properties of roles, utilities, capabilities and norms (RUCN) in order to give the agents the opportunity to quickly adapt to any new environment. Moreover, a simulation volleyball game is implemented using Netlogo and has been t...

This report reviews both general agent based modelling (ABM) and battlefield-specific ABM toolkits against established criteria, namely flexibility, documentation, speed, and facilities. The other main focus of this report is to consider which ABM toolkits are best suited to studying self-organisation, adaptation, and causality in networks, since these are all essential parts of complex adaptiv...

The core problem we address in this paper is how to take a declarative conceptual representation of a complex system and produce an agent-based simulation of that model. In particular, we describe a computational technique that takes Structure-Behavior-Function models of complex systems and simulates the behavior of the modeled system in NetLogo, an agent-based programming and simulation enviro...

There are several software tools available for modeling combat and social phenomena. With more emphasis being shifted to the study of Irregular Warfare from Traditional Warfare it is important to evaluate current combat models to see if they can effectively model the complex situations that are faced by today’s war fighters. This study evaluates three simulation software products: Map Aware Non...