We review and evaluate two recently evolved agent-based simulation platforms: version 5.0 of NetLogo and the ReLogo component of Repast. Subsequent to the similar review we published in 2006, NetLogo has evolved into a powerful platform for scientific modeling while retaining its basic conceptual design, ease of use, and excellent documentation. ReLogo evolved both from NetLogo and Repast; it i...

We review and evaluate two related agent-based simulation platforms: version 5.0 of NetLogo and the ReLogo component of Repast. We implemented the “StupidModel” series of 16 pseudo-models in both platforms; these codes contain many elements of basic agent-based models and can serve as templates for programming real models. Subsequent to the similar review we published in 2006, NetLogo has evolv...

The Multi-Agent-Based programming, modeling and simulation environment of NetLogo (Wilensky, 1999) has been used extensively during the last fifteen years for educational – among other – purposes. The learning subject, upon interacting with the User’s Interface of NetLogo, can easily study properties of the simulated natural systems, as well as observe the latter’s response, when altering their...

The implementation and evaluation of asynchronous search techniques can be done in any programming language allowing a distributed programming. Nevertheless, for the study of such techniques and for their evaluation, it is easier and more efficient to implement the techniques under certain distributed environments, which offer various facilities, such as NetLogo and are open-source. This articl...

The implementation and evaluation of asynchronous search techniques can be done in any programming language allowing a distributed programming. Nevertheless, for the study of such techniques and for their evaluation, it is easier and more efficient to implement the techniques under certain distributed environments, which offer various facilities, such as NetLogo and are open-source. This articl...

NetLogo [41, 40] is a freely downloadable, agent-based software package that was created at the Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling (CCL) at Northwestern University, directed by Uri Wilensky. It is the latest in a series of multi-agent simulation environments that includes StarLogo [28, 33], which was developed at the MIT Media Lab by Wilensky and Mitchel Resnick. In these...

In attempts to further understand complex systems at an individual level, the application of agent-based modeling is becoming prevalent across a range of academic disciplines. With the advantages of being multi-platform, requiring little programming experience, and supported by a large number of freely available case study examples, Netlogo has become a popular choice as the software tool to ap...

Despite the stereotype concerning their biological counterparts, NetLogo's turtles are fast. NetLogo (Wilensky 1999a) contains a sophisticated interpreter that has been highly optimized. Nevertheless, NetLogo turtles aren't as fast as they could be. Interpretation necessarily incurs a performance penalty. Thus, we are in the process of replacing NetLogo's interpreter with a compiler. This trans...