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Swarm is a library of software components developed by the Santa Fe Institute which allow researchers to construct discrete event simulations of complex systems with heterogeneous elements or agents. These libraries provide reusable objects for analyzing, displaying and controlling simulation experiments. Swarm is not based on any assumptions about the system that is being simulated, and is currently being used by a wide variety of researchers in the social and natural sciences. We present examples of economic models which have been implemented in Swarm and discuss the advantages of the Object-Oriented simulation approach.
This research was supported by the Center for Computable Economics, UCLA and the Experimental and Computable Economics Laboratory, University of Trento, Italy. I would like to thank the Swarm programming team, in particular Manor Askenazi, for advice and information, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, John Miller, Scott Page and P. Konstantina Kiousis for valuable discussions.
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Stefansson, B. (1997). Swarm: An object oriented simulation platform applied to markets and organizations. In: Angeline, P.J., Reynolds, R.G., McDonnell, J.R., Eberhart, R. (eds) Evolutionary Programming VI. EP 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1213. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0014801
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