Comparison of agent-based modeling software
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The agent-based modeling (ABM) community has developed several practical agent based modeling toolkits that enable individuals to develop agent-based applications. More and more such toolkits are coming into existence, and each toolkit has a variety of characteristics. Several individuals have made attempts to compare toolkits to each other (e.g. [1][2]). Below is a chart providing an overview of platforms that have their own Wikipedia page and is intended to capture many of the features that are important to ABM toolkit users.
Comparison of ABM software
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Supporting Organization | License | Programming Language | Operating System | GIS Capabilities | 3D Capabilities | Last Update |
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| Altreva; Utrecht, Netherlands | Proprietary; free evaluation version available for research and experimentation (some limitations but no expiration) | No programming skills required. An adaptive form of genetic programming is used to create trading rules. Users can select functions to be used in the genetic programming engine. | Windows | Unknown | Yes Up to 3 agent properties can be visualized in real-time using 2D graphics and color | July 20, 2020 (Version 1.6.0) [3] | |
| The AnyLogic Company; Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois, USA | Proprietary; Free Personal Learning Edition available | Java | Linux, macOS, Windows | Yes: supports both tile maps from free online providers and shapefile-based maps | Yes | November 20, 2024[4][5] | |
| Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland | Depends on module: GPL/LGPL/Proprietary | FramScript (similar to JavaScript) | Cross-platform | Yes | Yes | June 23, 2025 (version 5.3) [6] | |
| IRD/SU international research unit UMMISCO, France | GNU GPL v3.0 | GAML (GAma Modeling Language) for simulations, Java for extensions | Windows; Linux; *nix; Mac OS X | Yes | Yes | July 3, 2025 (version 2025.06.4) [7] | |
| George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA | Open source (Academic Free License) |
Java | Cross-platform | Yes | Yes | September 3, 2019 (Version 20)[8] | |
| Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA | GNU GPL | NetLogo | Cross-platform | Yes | Yes | May 1, 2026 (Version 7.0.4) [9] | |
| Argonne National Laboratory, University of Chicago; Lemont, Illinois, USA | BSD | Java (RepastS, RepastJ); Python (Repast4Py); Visual Basic, .Net, C++, J#, C# (Repast.net) | Cross-platform | Yes | Yes | July 2, 2024 (Version 2.11.0) [10] | |
| John E. Laird, Clare Bates Congdon, Mazin Assanie, Nate Derbinsky and Joseph Xu; Division of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA | BSD | Soar 1 to 5 in Lisp; Soar 6 in C; Java, C++, TCL | Cross-platform | Unknown | Unknown | July 28, 2017 (Version 9.6.0) [11] | |
| Mitchel Resnick, Eric Klopfer, and others at MIT Media Lab and The MIT Scheller Teacher Education Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cambridge, MA, USA | Free (closed source) – Clearthought Software License, Version 1.0 | StarLogo (an extension of Logo) | Cross-platform | Unknown | Unknown | November 27, 2018 [12] | |
| Swarm Development Group | GNU GPL | Java; Objective-C | Cross-platform | Unknown | Unknown | 2005 [13] |
References
[edit]- ^ Abar, Sameera; et al. (May 2017). "Agent Based Modelling and Simulation tools: A review of the state-of-art software". Computer Science Review. 24. doi:10.1016/j.cosrev.2017.03.001. Retrieved 28 November 2025.
- ^ Gacek, Paulina; et al. (April 2025). "A Comparison of Selected Agent-Based Modelling Frameworks". Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-85703-4_19. Retrieved 28 November 2025.
- ^ "Altreva - Stock market forecasting software using agent-based market simulation models". altreva.com. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
- ^ (Version 8.7.7) "AnyLogic latest version - 8.9.3". anylogic.com. Retrieved 2 December 2024.
- ^ "AnyLogic 8.9.2 and 8.9.3: innovations that drive future progress". Retrieved 2 December 2024.
- ^ History framsticks.com
- ^ "Releases · gama-platform/Gama". GitHub.
- ^ "Releases · eclab/Mason". GitHub.
- ^ "Releases · NetLogo/NetLogo". GitHub.
- ^ "Releases · Repast/Repast.simphony". GitHub.
- ^ "Releases · SoarGroup/Soar". GitHub.
- ^ "Welcome".
- ^ "Swarm:Stable release - Swarm".