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Our mission is to help computational modelers at all levels engage in the establishment and adoption of community standards and good practices for developing and sharing computational models. Model authors can freely publish their model source code in the Computational Model Library alongside narrative documentation, open science metadata, and other emerging open science norms that facilitate software citation, reproducibility, interoperability, and reuse. Model authors can also request peer review of their computational models to receive a DOI.
All users of models published in the library must cite model authors when they use and benefit from their code.
Please check out our model publishing tutorial and contact us if you have any questions or concerns about publishing your model(s) in the Computational Model Library.
We also maintain a curated database of over 7500 publications of agent-based and individual based models with additional detailed metadata on availability of code and bibliometric information on the landscape of ABM/IBM publications that we welcome you to explore.
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Environmental uncertainty affects the optimal structure of information-sharing networks
Takao Sasaki Marco Janssen Stephen Pratt Zachary Joseph Shaffer | Published Monday, March 16, 2015We used a computer simulation to measure how well different network structures (fully connected, small world, lattice, and random) find and exploit resource peaks in a variable environment.
Linear recruitment leads to allocation and flexibility in collective foraging by ants
Zachary Joseph Shaffer Takao Sasaki Stephen Pratt | Published Thursday, July 11, 2013 | Last modified Thursday, September 05, 2013Ants in the genus Temnothorax use tandem runs (rather than pheromone trails) to recruit to food sources. This model explores the collective consequences of this linear recruitment (as opposed to highly nonlinear pheromone trails).
A simple behavioral model predicts the emergence of complex animal hierarchies
Takao Sasaki Clint A Penick Zachary Joseph Shaffer Stephen Pratt Jürgen Liebig | Published Tuesday, December 22, 2015We used our model to test how different combinations of dominance interactions present in H. saltator could result in linear, despotic, or shared hierarchies.
Foundress dilemma model
Zachary Joseph Shaffer Takao Sasaki Brian Haney Marco Janssen Stephen Pratt Jennifer Fewell | Published Thursday, July 28, 2016A haystack-style model of group selection to capture the essential features of colony foundation for queens of the ant based on observation of the ant Pogonomyrmex californicus.