Abstract
We are developing an “Online Models” dialogue for NetLogo. It works like NetLogo’s “Models Library” dialogue but shows every NetLogo model publicly available on GitHub instead. Our goal is to encourage the sharing of NetLogo models in a way that brings the advantages of version control systems and open-source style collaboration to the world of agent-based modelling.
Additional credit goes to Frank Duncan, with whom these ideas were first discussed, and to Uri Wilensky, without whom NetLogo itself would not exist.
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The possibility of using version control systems with LATE X is one of the advantages it has over Word.
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“What You See Is What You Get.”
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The tool is currently being developed in a fork of the NetLogo codebase [17], but the plan is to make it available as a plugin that can easily be installed in the official distribution of NetLogo.
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Payette, N. (2020). Collaborating Like Professionals: Integrating NetLogo and GitHub. In: Verhagen, H., Borit, M., Bravo, G., Wijermans, N. (eds) Advances in Social Simulation. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34127-5_33
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