GABRIELE: The General Agent Based Repast Implemented Extensible Laboratory for Economics

• Main Author: Gianfranco Giulioni
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2019-01-01
• Series: SoftwareX
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352711018300761

The present work provides an open-source agent-based model addressed to the investigation of economic systems dynamics. This includes a general framework where interested researchers can insert and develop additional elements to analyze more specific issues. The software is made available with a collaborative intent. Cooperation among scholars interested in different aspects of human behavior will make it possible to endow economic agents with traditional or more recent and sophisticated knowledge-based decision techniques. This process will also deliver a tool for supporting policy makers decisions. In order to make the cooperation possible and to provide scholars with a user-ready tool that can be promptly applied for simulations in research, a particular effort in providing a comprehensive documentation (UML, Javadoc, LaTeX, HTML) describing how to use, develop and improve the features of the current version of the model is provided together with the open-source code at https://github.com/gfgprojects/gabriele. Keywords: Agent-based model, Macroeconomics, Open-source software, Economic systems, Policy maker decision support system