Here are some software tools I developed for my research, and released as open source. Feel free to contact me with any issues relating these tools, namely bugs and suggestions. Also, I would like to know about any application or extension of these tools to your own research.
Synthetic – Evolutionary Modeling of Complex Networks
Synthetic is a scientific experimentation tool aimed at studying the genesis and dynamics of complex networks using multi-agent simulations and evolutionary computation.
Following a standard view in Complexity Science, networks are seen as the emergent outcome of the local, low-level interactions of autonomous agents. The idea of using a multi-agent simulation to model a complex network is not new, but it presents challenges to the human modeler. As simplifying assumptions are removed, or the target network becomes more complex, the discovery of the corresponding low-level mechanism becomes harder. Synthetic aims at aiding and, to a degree, automating this discovery process with evolutionary search.
LabLOVE – Laboratory of Life on a Virtual Environment
This is a simulation tool I wrote during work in my PhD thesis.
LabLOVE is an open source software platform for evolutionary multi-agent simulations. It allows for the definition of scenarios where populations of autonomous agents evolve through processes inspired in Darwinian evolution.
LabLOVE is a scientific research tool with several fields of application, including the generation of artificial intelligence through evolution and biological and social simulations.