JABM

About JABM

The Java Agent-Based Modelling (JABM) toolkit is a Java framework for building agent-based models using a discrete-event simulation framework.

JABM was developed by Steve Phelps for research carried out at the Centre for Computational Finance & Economic Agents (CCFEA).

Features

• Simple architecture: agents represented using plain-old Java objects (POJOs).
• Simulations can be easily configured using the industry standard Spring framework.
• Attributes of any object can be specified as random variates to be drawn from a specified distribution without writing any Java code.
• Attributes of any object can be specified as independent variables or treatment factors with a given range of values.
• Experiments can be easily parallelised.

Download

JABM can be downloaded from Sourceforge.

Documentation

An overview of JABM can be found in the following working paper

• S. Phelps. Applying dependency injection to agent-based modelling: the JABM framework, 2012, CCFEA Working Paper #WP056-12. [pdf]

Additionally, the API Documentation is provided in standard javadoc format. An overview of the central classes is provided in UML.