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Repast Agent Simulation Toolkit: "The Recursive Porous Agent Simulation Toolkit (Repast) is one of several agent modeling toolkits that are available. Repast borrows many concepts from the Swarm agent-based modeling toolkit [1]. Repast is differentiated from Swarm since Repast has multiple pure implementations in several languages and built-in adaptive features such as genetic algorithms and regression. For reviews of Swarm, Repast, and other agent-modeling toolkits, see the survey by Serenko and Detlor, the survey by Gilbert and Bankes, and the toolkit review by Tobias and Hofmann [2] [3] [4]. In particular, Tobias and Hofmann performed a review of sixteen agent modeling toolkits and found that 'we can conclude with great certainty that according to the available information, Repast is at the moment the most suitable simulation framework for the applied modeling of social interventions based on theories and data' [4].
Repast is a free open source toolkit that was originally developed by Sallach, Collier, Howe, North and others [5]. Repast was created at the University of Chicago. Subsequently, it has been maintained by organizations such as Argonne National Laboratory. Repast is now managed by the non-profit volunteer Repast Organization for Architecture and Development (ROAD). ROAD is lead by a board of directors that includes members from a wide range of government, academic and industrial organizations. The Repast system, including the source code, is available directly from the web. "