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| Type | Master's Thesis |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | A Survey of Agent Based Modelling Toolkits Assessing the Ease-of-use |
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| Institution | University of Zurich |
| Faculty | Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics |
| Date | 2018 |
| Abstract Text | Selecting the appropriate toolkit to design an Agent Based Model (ABM) is reliant on either the modeller’s experience with such toolkits or previous surveys. Most of the previous surveys have focused on technical competence of the toolkits with only limited consideration for the ease-of-use aspect. However, ease-of-use could be the driving factor for individuals with an ad-hoc requirement to use ABM. To this end, this thesis presents an in-depth comparison of ease-of-use of three prominent ABM toolkits (Repast, NetLogo and AnyLogic) using standardised test cases and participant survey. Various dimensions of ease-of-use attribute have been discussed and compared through the model development lifecycle. Aspects of the toolkits reflecting ease-of-use have been rated using the experiments and the survey. The relative positioning of the toolkits based on the tabulation of the results has been presented as a conclusion. |
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