About CoMSES Net / OpenABM
Welcome! The Network for Computational Modeling in the Social and Ecological Sciences (CoMSES Net), is an open community of researchers, educators, and professionals with a common goal - improving the way we develop, share, use, and reuse agent based and computational models for the study of social and ecological systems. We maintain the CoMSES Model Library, a digital repository that supports discovery and good practices for software citation, digital preservation, reproducibility, and reuse. We encourage you to join CoMSES Net, add your models to the archive, and engage with our educational and training materials, and community.
We are governed by an international executive board, ex-officio members (PIs on projects that fund CoMSES Net) and adhere to these community drafted by-laws.
To cite CoMSES Net, please use the following:
Janssen, Marco A., Alessa, Lilian Na’ia, Barton, Michael, Bergin, Sean and Lee, Allen (2008). ‘Towards a Community Framework for Agent-Based Modelling’. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 11(2)6 http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/2/6.html.
Provide trusted digital preservation and curation
CoMSES Net is committed to bringing FAIR principles for research software to computational modeling in the social and ecological sciences.
Promote a culture of sharing
Ensure that computational modeling related research outputs, including data, software, and detailed descriptive metadata adhere to community established standards and good practices for transparency and reuse.
Improve theoretical and methodological practice
Engage with practitioners to address theoretical concerns and improve methodological practices for transparency, reuse and reproducibility.