Ecological Society of America recognizes Volker Grimm

The Ecological Society of America awarded Volker Grimm the 2023 Robert Whittaker Distinguished Ecologist Award, which is presented every two years to an outstanding non-American ecologist. The award statement noted Volker’s contributions to theoretical ecology,...

Reusable building blocks for agent-based models

Uta Berger, Volker Grimm, and others recently submitted a manuscript promoting reusable components of ABMs, and established the web site www.rbb4abm.com to promote them. The authors define resusable building blocks: “An RBB is a submodel that represents a...

New software development resources from CoMSES Net

CoMSES Net, the Network for Computational Modeling in Social and Ecological Sciences,is making training materials for good software practices available. Modules are now available on: Responsible practices for scientific software, Introduction to Git and Github, and...

NetLogo 6.3.0 and big models

Version 6.3.0 of NetLogo is now (since September 2022) the default version for download at http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/download.shtml. We have been working with the NetLogo developers to understand and alleviate some unexpected behavior of this new version...

Interested in a short course?

Volker and Steve are considering offering one or more short courses in 2023; are you interested? In the past we have offered (a) introductory courses to help grad students and researchers get started in agent-based modeling, (b) “advanced” classes or...