Open‐Source ABM Packages

Open-source ABMs

This page is intended to document a broad & shallow look at a lot of existing open-source ABMs, with the goal of simply ruling them in/out as worthy of a deeper investigation. Building from Clinton Collins' wiki page

Model	Language	Worth a deeper look?	Notes why/why not	Other notes
MESA	Python
Agents.jl	Julia
Gama	Java	Yes, so far -- very GIS/spatial. Though written in Java, can be run from Python or R	Java, Rich GUI, runs on Ubuntu. Still looking, especially at max agents and performance.	Another one with a declarative interface and rich GUI
Pathogens.jl	Julia	No	Person-to-person transmission-network, no spatial metapopulations
epydemic	Python	No	Person-to-person transmission-network, no spatial metapopulations
metawards	Python	Yes-ish	Spatial metapopulation SEIR-type agent-based model. Multiple migration types, multiple demographic cohorts.	May be worth a second look, but probably more to see what they did for any ideas we might want to take. A quick look through docs and tutorials gives the impression that this is overall quite COVID-specific and that design decisions explicitly target modeling things like work closures, etc.
epi-spot	Python	No	Compartmental modeling platform
summer	Python
JADE	Java
MASON	Java
NetLogo	Scala/Java	So far	Seems to have deep penetration into Academia, and mature set of training materials, including textbooks and coursera
Repast	C++
Unity ABM Framework	C#/Unity
June	Python