A template model for ABM platforms

Here is the StupidModel specification. There are 16 versions of StupidModel, which vary from a bare bones template (version 1) to one which involves 2 agent types, a full agent life cycle (birth, reproduction, predation, and death), and a habitat with data read from an input file (version 16).

We implemented StupidModel in 5 platforms:

We had two main goals:

1. to provide template code for commonly used ABM features which can be used as a teaching tool for learning how to write ABM's
2. to compare ease of implementation of models in a variety of ABM platforms.

Here is a link to a draft of a paper we have written, comparing the 5 platforms that we used.

Here are the implementations of StupidModel, and implementation notes for some of the platforms.

Versions 15 and 16 of StupidModel use a data file. It is in CellDataFile.ZIP.