Re: MonteCarlo Simulations needed

[Steve Railsback]

Perrone Alessandro wrote:

> Hi all
>  Before starting to program a library for MonteCArlo Simulations, I'd 
> like to know if anyone has ever  programmed some MonteCArlo Simulations?
> Regards.
>                     ALEX

Hi Alex- We have not conducted Monte Carlo simulations, but before you 
start programming I suggest you take a look at our Experiment Manager. 
It lets you select model variables or parameters and give them new 
values (via probes- without having to touch the model code) then 
automatically executes new model runs with each set of values. Some of 
the code in the Experiment Manager might be very useful - with perhaps 
not much modification you could program it into a general Monte Carlo 
simulation generator. If you are interested, please ask Steve Jackson 
address@hidden for the code. I have a bit of documentation.

I also discussed this issue yesterday with Thorsten Wiegand of the UFZ 
research center where I am currently visiting. 
http://pinus.oesa.ufz.de/english/  Thorsten has conducted Monte Carlo 
simulations for the purpose of model validation and parameter fitting of 
agent-based ecological models (not using Swarm). He has some papers on 
this topic- contact him at  address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>

Steve


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