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GAMA is a simulation platform, which aims at providing field experts, modellers, and computer scientists with a complete modelling and simulation development environment for building spatially explicit multi-agent simulations. It has been first developed by the Vietnamese-French research team MSI (located at IFI, Hanoi, and part of the IRD/UPMC International Research Unit UMMISCO) from 2007 to 2010, and is now developed by a consortium of academic and industrial partners led by UMMISCO, among which the University of Rouen, France, the University of Toulouse 1, France, the University of Orsay, France, the University of Can Tho, Vietnam, the National University of Hanoi, EDF R&D, France, and CEA LISC, France.
Some of the features of GAMA are illustrated in the videos above (more can be found in our Youtube channel).
Beyond these features, GAMA also offers:
The documentation of GAMA is available online on the wiki of the project. It is organized around a few central activities (installing GAMA, writing models, running experiments, developing new extensions to the platform) and provides complete references on both the GAML language, the platform itself, and the scientific aspects of our work (with a complete bibliography). Several tutorials are also provided in the documentation in order to minimize the learning curve, allowing users to build, step by step, the models corresponding to these tutorials, which are of course shipped with the platform.
The documentation can be accessed from the side bar of this page. A good starting point for new users is the installation page.
A standalone version of the documentation, in PDF format, can be directly downloaded from here
GAMA can be downloaded as a regular application or built from source, which is necessary if you want to contribute to the platform. The source code is available from this GITHub repository:
https://github.com/gama-platform/gama
Which you can also browse from the web here. It is, in any case, recommended to follow the instructions on this page in order to build GAMA from source.
This is a free software (distributed under the GNU GPL v3 license), so you can have access to the code, edit it and redistribute it under the same terms. Independently of the licensing issues, if you plan on reusing part of our code, we would be glad to know it !
GAMA is being designed, developed and maintained by an active group of researchers coming from different institutions in France and Vietnam. Please find below a short introduction to each of them and a summary of their contributions to the platform:
If you use GAMA in your research and want to cite it (in a paper, presentation, whatever), please use this reference:
A. Grignard, P. Taillandier, B. Gaudou, D-A. Vo, N-Q. Huynh, A. Drogoul (2013), GAMA 1.6: Advancing the Art of Complex Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation. In ‘PRIMA 2013: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems’, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 8291, Springer, pp. 117-131.
or you can choose to cite the website instead:
GAMA Platform website, http://gama-platform.org
A complete list of references (papers and PhD theses on or using GAMA) is available on the references page.
The best way to get in touch with the developers of GAMA is to sign in for the gama-platform@googlegroups.com mailing list. If you wish to contribute to the platform, you might want, instead or in addition, to sign in for the gama-dev@googlegroups.com mailing list. On both lists, we generally answer quite quickly to requests.
Finally, if you think you have found a bug in GAMA, or if you absolutely need a feature that does not exist yet, it is much more efficient and time-saving for everyone (including current and future users) to create a new issue report. Please refer to these instructions to do so.