The MASON Simulation Toolkit: Past, Present, and Future
The MASON Simulation Toolkit: Past, Present, and Future
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10.1007/978-3-030-22270-3_6
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2018-07
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S. Luke;R. Simon;A. Crooks;Haoliang Wang;E. Wei;David Freelan;Carmine Spagnuolo;V. Scarano;G. Cordasco;C. Cioffi-Revilla
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S. Luke;R. Simon;A. Crooks;Haoliang Wang;E. Wei;David Freelan;Carmine Spagnuolo;V. Scarano;G. Cordasco;C. Cioffi-Revilla
MASON是一个广泛使用的基于代理的开源仿真工具包，自2002年以来一直在不断开发。MASON的体系结构在当时是最前沿的，但计算机技术的进步现在为ABM社区扩展模型和应用新的建模技术提供了新的机会。我们正在扩展梅森提供这些机会，以回应社区的反馈。在本文中，我们讨论梅森，它的历史和设计，以及我们计划如何改善和扩展它在未来几年。根据用户反馈，将增加分布式仿真，分布式GIS，优化和敏感性分析工具，外部语言和开发环境支持，统计设施，协作档案和教育工具。
MASON is a widely-used open-source agent-based simulation toolkit that has been in constant development since 2002. MASON’s architecture was cutting-edge for its time, but advances in computer technology now offer new opportunities for the ABM community to scale models and apply new modeling techniques. We are extending MASON to provide these opportunities in response to community feedback. In this paper we discuss MASON, its history and design, and how we plan to improve and extend it over the next several years. Based on user feedback will add distributed simulation, distributed GIS, optimization and sensitivity analysis tools, external language and development environment support, statistics facilities, collaborative archives, and educational tools.