FW: RePast Study Guide (resource site)

[Stephen Guerin]

Leigh Tesfatsion posted a self-study for RePast on SIMSOC. It looks like a
nice complement to Owen's RePast tutorial (which Leigh references).

-Steve

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-----Original Message-----
From: Leigh Tesfatsion [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 3:41 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: RePast Study Guide (resource site)


22 June 2004

Dear SimSoc Mailing List Participants:

I thought some of you might be interested in a self-study guide I have
prepared for a RePast Study Group I have organized at Iowa State University
for this summer.   As indicated in the attached introductory paragraphs from
this guide (see below), RePast is a Java-based toolkit for agent-based
modelling and graphical visualization developed and maintained by David
Sallach and other researchers at the University of Chicago and the Argonne
National Laboratory.  RePast has been specifically designed for complex
systems comprising multiple interacting agents with learning capabilities.

The RePast Study Guide is accessible at

    http://www.econ.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/repastsg.htm

Any comments you might have on this guide (e.g., suggestions for additional
materials) would be most welcome.

Best wishes,

Leigh

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INTRODUCTORY PARAGRAPHS FROM THE REPAST STUDY GUIDE:

RePast is a Java-based toolkit for agent-based modelling and graphical
visualization developed and maintained by David Sallach and other
researchers at the University of Chicago and the Argonne National
Laboratory. RePast has been specifically designed for complex systems
comprising multiple interacting agents with learning capabilities. RePast
permits the systematic study of complex system behaviors through controlled
and replicable computational experiments.

The RePast Study Group is an informal summer support group (not a course!)
for those wishing to undertake a study of the RePast toolkit. The primary
reason for organizing the group is to help participants obtain some facility
with RePast through readings, hands-on experience with RePast demos, and
simple programming exercises. The objective is to determine the degree to
which RePast provides a useful and user-friendly agent-based modelling tool
for economics and related fields.

This site provides links to readings, discussion materials, software, and
other resources of potential use to RePast Study Group participants.
Although some prior programming experience is desirable, it is not presumed.

I. Introduction
    I.A  What is a Complex Adaptive System (CAS)?
    I.B  What is Agent-Based Computational Economics (ACE)?

II. Agent-Oriented Programming
  II.A General Overview
  II.B Introduction to Java

III. Getting Acquainted with RePast
   III.A Background Materials
   III.B Downloadable Stand-Alone RePast Demos

IV. Programming with RePast
   IV.A The RePast Software Framework
   IV.B Development Environments
   IV.C RePast Documentation and Tutorials
   IV.D RePast Demos and Applications (Open Source)
   IV.E Design of Experiments

V. Possible RePast Modelling Application Areas: On-Line Resource Sites



Leigh Tesfatsion                  Department of Economics
Tel: [phone]              Iowa State University
FAX: [phone]            Ames, Iowa 50011-1070  U.S.A.
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