Netlogo: Introduction to an agent-based simulation environment
NetLogo is a multi-agent programmable modeling environment, used by tens
of thousands of students, teachers and researchers worldwide. Originally
developed by Uri Wilensky in 1999 at the Center for Connected Learning
and Computer-Based Modeling at Northwestern University of Chicago
(http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/), it offers an ideal development
environment for creating simulation models for agents, networks and
dynamical systems.
Within Netlogo is possible to reproduce many of the features of a
complex system made by thousands of interacting elements, study its
evolution over time and display it in real time inside of a virtual
laboratory 2D or 3D. Netlogo is written in Java but is fully
programmable via a meta-object-oriented language based on the simplified
syntax of Logo (created by S.Papert and others in 1967). The tutorial
will give the basis of the Netlogo programming language trough several
examples and provides also a practice interactive session where students
can create their own simulations.