SLUCE's Original Model for Exploration
The SOME model investigates the phenomenon of urban sprawl through residential settlement preferences and service center feedbacks. While I was not involved in the definition or creation of the SOME model, I did manage to prepare its NetLogo version for the web, as well as design the SLUCE Outreach web site that acts as a tutorial/slide show of the components that make up the NetLogo version of SOME. A number of experiments for pedagogical use also accompany the model.
Using Eclipse with RePast
The majority of my agent-based modelling (ABM) is performed in Eclipse using the RePast simulation libraries. Both products are free and available online. I've often found setting up new environments to be tricky and therefore I've outlined the steps a modeller needs to perform in order to program with RePast in Eclipse. These instructions are based on those I received at the Agent2003 RePast workshop.
1) Set-up Eclipse for programming ABM with RePast - involves downloading and installing software.
2) Create a RePast Project - all models will point to this project in order to utilize the functionality of the RePast libraries.
3) Creating a RePast based ABM - using already created code available online, the user sets up a model and is able to run it.
I also noticed while posting these instructions that Charlie Gieseler has two great power point presentation (1, 2) that are very similar and have screen captures that may provide assistance.