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Our mission is to help computational modelers develop, document, and share their computational models in accordance with community standards and good open science and software engineering practices. Model authors can publish their model source code in the Computational Model Library with narrative documentation as well as metadata that supports open science and emerging norms that facilitate software citation, computational reproducibility / frictionless reuse, and interoperability. Model authors can also request private peer review of their computational models. Models that pass peer review receive a DOI once published.
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Fertility Tradeoffs
Kristin Crouse | Published Tuesday, November 05, 2019 | Last modified Wednesday, March 25, 2026Fertility Tradeoffs is an agent-based model that examines how parental investment strategies evolve under density-dependent conditions. Humans occupy territories that compete for limited space, and reproduction requires both resources and available territory. Individuals inherit investment strategies that determine how much time and resources are required to raise a child, creating a tradeoff between number of children and investment per child. As space fills, territory costs increase and population growth slows, producing logistic-like dynamics. By manipulating child mortality and resource availability, the model demonstrates how environmental conditions shape both population outcomes and the evolution of reproductive strategies.
Biodynamica
Klaus Jaffe | Published Saturday, December 24, 2016Agent based simulation model for the study of the genetic evolution of sexual recombination and social behavior
Parental choices, children's skills, and skill inequality: An agent-based model implemented in Python
Andrés Cardona | Published Thursday, October 30, 2014The model explores the emergence of inequality in cognitive and socio-emotional skills at the societal level within and across generations that results from differences in parental investment behavior during childhood and adolescence.
Parental Investment Model (Aktipis and Fernandez-Duque)
Athena Aktipis | Published Saturday, July 17, 2010 | Last modified Saturday, April 27, 2013This is version 1 of the Parental Investment Model by Aktipis & Fernandez-Duque.