NetLogo

NetLogo is a programmable modeling environment for simulating natural and social phenomena. It is particularly well-suited for modeling complex systems developing over time. NetLogo is widely used by researchers, teachers, and students across a wide variety of disciplines such as biology, chemistry, climate science, computer science, economics, engineering, geography, linguistics, physics, robotics, and sociology. NetLogo is an agent-based programming language. Agents are the basic objects in NetLogo. Each agent has its own code, which defines its behavior. The code for all agents of the same type is the same; it is only the data that is different. This makes it easy to create large numbers of agents, each with its own behavior. The NetLogo environment includes a rich set of tools for creating and manipulating models. The NetLogo codebase includes a wide variety of sample models. The NetLogo Models Library contains a growing collection of community-contributed models. NetLogo is free and open source software. It runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux.