Time: 9:00 – 17:00, Monday 25 May, 2015

Lecturer: Patrick Taillandier – University of Rouen, France; Benoit Gaudou – University of Toulouse, France and Philippe Caillou – University of Orsay, France.

Location: VIASM Lecture Hall C2

Aim:

This practical mini-course aims at training GAMA platform. GAMA platform is a modeling and simulation development environment for building spatially explicit agent-based simulations (https://code.google.com/p/gama-platform/). GAMA allows

+ Design, prototype and write models in the GAML agent-oriented its optional graphical modeling

+ Instantiate agents from any kind of dataset, including GIS data, execute large-scale simulations (up to millions of agents).

+ Couple discrete or continuous topological layers, multiple agency and multiple paradigms (mathematical equations, control architectures, finite state machines).

+ Define rich experiments on models and explore their calibration and validation.

+ Design rich user interfaces that support deep inspections on agents, controlled actions and panels, multi-layer 2D/3D displays and multiple agent aspects.

This course is open to all researchers and students. They should bring their own computers.

Program

+ 9.00 – 9.15: Introduction to agent-based modeling (Patrick Taillandier)

+ 9.15 – 10.15: Practical introduction to GAMA 1/2 (Patrick Taillandier and Philippe Caillou)

+ 10.15 – 10.30: Break

+ 10.30 – 12.00: Practical introduction to GAMA 2/2 (Patrick Taillandier and Philippe Caillou)

+ 12.00 – 14.00: Lunch

+ 14.00 – 15.00: Model coupling with GAMA 1/2 (Benoit Gaudou)

+ 15.00 – 15.15: Break

+ 15.15 – 16.45: Model coupling with GAMA 2/2 (Benoit Gaudou)

+ 16.45 – 17.00: Conclusion of the day