IODA NetLogo Documentation

IODA NetLogo 2.2 User Manual   

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Introduction

The IODA NetLogo extension lets users of NetLogo (Wilensky, 1999) incorporate within their models a small part of the functionality and features of the IODA Methodology – "Interaction-Oriented Design of Agent simulations" (Kubera et al., 2008, 2011) – by providing appropriate data types, primitives and include files.

The IODA approach aims at simplifying the design and reusability of individual-based simulations. It relies upon three key ideas:

Thus the design of an individual-based model is split into three tasks: the identification of agents, the description of interactions, and the filling of the interaction matrix. The goal of this extension is to allow NetLogo users to get familiar with and use the IODA approach within their models, for research or educational purpose. For more information on the IODA approach, please consult the IODA NetLogo Tutorials, the IODA webpage and the research papers mentioned below.

On-line examples

You can have a look at a few examples on-line (without downloading the extension itself) through NetLogo applets on the IODA NetLogo webpage.

Download

The IODA NetLogo package can be downloaded on this page.

Contents

The ioda folder is provided with the following items:

How to install

The IODA NetLogo extension 2.2 has been developed for NetLogo 5.0. If you are using NetLogo 4.1.3, please use IODA NetLogo 2.0 instead.

To install the IODA NetLogo extension for use by any model, place IODA's folder either in the extensions directory in the NetLogo directory, or in the same folder as the model that uses it. For more information about other ways of installing an extension refer to the NetLogo Extensions Guide.

In order to use the IODA simulation engine, your NetLogo code must include the file named IODA_2_2.nls. Thus, if the IODA folder is installed in the NetLogo directory, it could be useful to put a copy of this file (or a symbolic link) next to your own NetLogo model, in order to use a relative path instead of an absolute path.

Getting started

The main usage pattern of IODA in NetLogo models is as follows: The user creates a model for the problem to study, according to the IODA methodology (Kubera et al. 2011). A IODA model is composed of the following elements:

The IODA NetLogo extension provides tools for checking the consistency of a model, i.e. to ensure that all concrete primitives have been written with respect to the definition of interactions, the interaction matrix and the update matrix.

After defining those items, you have to write a setup procedure to initialize your simulation and a go procedure to run it. If you simply want to make use of the predefined IODA simulation engine, just put ioda:setup at the end of your setup procedure, and ioda:go at the beginning of your go procedure. That's all!

See the Tutorial for a practical use of the IODA methodology applied to NetLogo simulations.

What's New?

Version 2.2

 

Version 2.1

 

Version 2.0

 

Contact Information

Authors: Sébastien Picault and Philippe Mathieu

Email: ioda (at) univ-lille1.fr

Web Site: http://www.lifl.fr/SMAC/projects/ioda

References

Y. KUBERA, P. MATHIEU and S. PICAULT (2011), "IODA: an interaction-oriented approach for multi-agent based simulations", in: Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (JAAMAS), vol. 23 (3), p. 303-343, Springer DOI: 10.1007/s10458-010-9164-z.

Y. KUBERA, P. MATHIEU and S. PICAULT (2010), "Everything can be Agent!", in: van der Hoek et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2010), Toronto, p. 1547-1548.

Y. KUBERA, P. MATHIEU and S. PICAULT (2008), "Interaction-Oriented Agent Simulations: From Theory to Implementation", in: M. Ghallab, C.D. Spyropoulos, N. Fakotakis, M. Avouris (eds.), 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'08), Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Applications, IOS Press, p. 383-387, ISBN 978-1-58603-891-5.

P. MATHIEU and S. PICAULT (2005), "Towards an interaction-based design of behaviors", in: M.-P. Gleizes (ed.), Proceedings of the The Third European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS'2005).

U. WILENSKY (1999), NetLogo. http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling, Northwestern University. Evanston, IL.

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