Agent-based modeling

zli034 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

My boss asked to read about Agent-based Modeling and cellular automata. I am looking into recent detailed algorithms and codes to do this things. But I cannot really find anything really detail to implementation on this topics at a programming language level. Is there any open-source or reviews to teach me basic coding on this topics?

There are nothing on CPAN, as far as I can see. I found some reviews are all very conceptual, never reaches coding level. The concept of agent-based modeling is easy to understand. I really want to know its technical details of current development. Suggests are appreciated.

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Re: Agent-based modeling by moklevat (Priest) on Dec 10, 2007 at 15:14 UTC
Google turned up some PM nodes on cellular automata, like An attempt at maze solution with Cellular Automata. However, rather than rolling your own in Perl you might save yourself a lot of time by using NetLogo instead. Agent-based modeling is what it does.	[reply]
Re: Agent-based modeling by Elias (Pilgrim) on Sep 21, 2009 at 16:56 UTC
This is an old thread, but agent based modeling (ABM) is still current as ever. Perl-related links include this one by Guinevere Nell which has a nice example with perl code included. For more extensive models at this moment two Java based platforms seem to rule: Ascape and Repast. The complexity of both Ascape and Repast is high if you want to create your own models, but they both offer a nice interface to dabble with the standard models found in literature. And making a basic model in Perl, as in the example of Guinevere Nell is relatively simple and fun. It will further your understanding under the hood of the model more than using the prefab ones.	[reply]