Guidance for keeping modelling notebooks

21 febrero, 2021

Keeping a modelling notebook have benefits for model developers, users, and stakeholders: improved and efficient model design, analysis, testing, and application; increased model acceptance and reuse; and replicability and reproducibility of the model and the simulation experiments. In a new paper, Ayllón et al. (2021) propose a standard format for modelling notebooks based on the … More Guidance for keeping modelling notebooks

New book on modelling adaptive decisions in IBMs

5 septiembre, 2020

The new book Modeling Populations of Adaptive Individuals, by Steven Railsback and Bret Harvey, is now for sale in Princeton University Press’s Monographs in Population Biology series. The book explains the problem of modeling tradeoff decisions (e.g., where to forage as a tradeoff between food intake rate and predation risk) in individual-based models that are … More New book on modelling adaptive decisions in IBMs

Update of the ODD protocol for IBM/ABMs: improved guidance for ODD beginners!

27 abril, 2020

Grimm et al. (2020) provide an update of the ODD (Overview, Design concepts, Details) protocol for describing agent-based models, with guidance to support wider and more consistent use. In this new update of ODD, Grimm et al. (2020) detail a range of reasons why ODD is not used more widely and more consistently, discuss how … More Update of the ODD protocol for IBM/ABMs: improved guidance for ODD beginners!