The MBSSM agent-based modelling software architecture: a hands-on tutorial

We have a session in the SocSimFest 2021 for people who are interested in expressing mechanisms of social and behavioural theories in an agent-based model in a unified way.

The session is a hands-on development tutorial. You will be introduced to the object-oriented programming paradigm (no previous experience required) and the MBSSM architecture (no knowledge of which is required, but you can see what it is here: http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/23/3/1.html). Using a tutorial ABM problem, you’ll be taken steadily through the process of expressing the ABM’s mechanisms using MBSSM’s unified design process and then implementing the design using MBSSM’s C++ Repast implementation (which may not turn out to be quite as scary as it sounds).

Participants will have online access to the software via a ready-to-run Virtual Machine and you’ll have the opportunity to see your simulations running by the end of the workshop. Please register (free) via https://www.socsimfest21.eu/ so we can send you the information for downloading and setting up the virtual machine on your PC/laptop before the tutorial.

For more information, please just email Robin (r.purshouse@sheffield.ac.uk) or Tuong (t.vu@sheffield.ac.uk). We look forward to meeting you at the festival!

Agenda (https://www.socsimfest21.eu/friday/)