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CoMSES Net maintains cyberinfrastructure to foster FAIR data principles for access to and (re)use of computational models. Model authors can publish their model code in the Computational Model Library with documentation, metadata, and data dependencies and support these FAIR data principles as well as best practices for software citation. Model authors can also request that their model code be peer reviewed 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 archive tutorial or contact us if you have any questions or concerns about archiving your model.
CoMSES Net also maintains a curated database of over 7500 publications of agent-based and individual based models with additional metadata on availability of code and bibliometric information on the landscape of ABM/IBM publications that we welcome you to explore.
World of Cows - Exploring land-use policies for a dairy-farm world (teaching modeling complex human-environment systems)
Maria Haensel Thomas Michael Schmitt Jakob Bogenreuther | Published Wed Jan 11 17:13:52 2023In the “World of Cows”, dairy farmers run their farms and interact with each other, the surrounding agricultural landscape, and the economic and political framework. The model serves as an exemplary case of an interdependent human-environment system.
With the model, users can analyze the influence of policies and markets on land use decisions of dairy farms. The land use decisions taken by farms determine the delivered ecosystem services on the landscape level. Users can choose a combination of five policy options and how strongly market prices fluctuate. Ideally, the choice of policy options fulfills the following three “political goals” 1) dairy farming stays economically viable, 2) the provision of ecosystem services is secured, and 3) government spending on subsidies is as low as possible.
The model has been designed for students to practice agent-based modeling and analyze the impacts of land use policies.
Evaluating Government's Policies on Promoting Smart Metering Diffusion in Retail Electricity Markets
Tao Zhang | Published Mon Dec 7 17:33:23 2009 | Last modified Sat Apr 27 20:18:30 2013This model is a market game for evaluating the effectiveness of the UK government’s 2008-2010 policy on promoting smart metering in the UK retail electricity market. We break down the policy into four
Emerging innovation niches model
Antonio Lopolito Richard Taylor Piergiuseppe Morone | Published Mon Sep 22 16:45:42 2014Objective of our model is to simulate the emergence and operation of a technological niches (TN) in terms of actors’ interaction. A TN can be conceived as protected socio-economic space where radical innovations are developed and tested
CITMOD A Tax-Benefit Modeling System for the average citizen
Philip Truscott | Published Mon Aug 15 06:10:15 2011 | Last modified Sat Apr 27 20:18:25 2013Must tax-benefit policy making be limited to the ‘experts’?