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MASON is a fast discrete-event multiagent simulation library core in Java, designed to be the foundation for large custom-purpose Java simulations, and also to provide more than enough functionality for many lightweight simulation needs. MASON contains both a model library and an optional suite of visualization tools in 2D and 3D.

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Ant Foraging By Liviu Panait This is a simulation of artificial ants foraging from a nest, discovering a food source in the face of obstacles, and then establishing a trail between the nest and food source. The model uses two pheromones which set up gradients to the nest and to the food source respectively. The pheromones evaporate and diffuse as well. A two-pheromone model is likely not biological; and the version here is an early version of our work, but later versions of the work produced a series of papers showing a strong relationship between ant pheromone algorithms and dynamic programming. http://cs.gmu.edu/~eclab/papers/panait04pheromone.pdf A Pheromone-Based Utility Model for Collaborative Foraging. Liviu Panait and Sean Luke. In AAMAS 2004. http://cs.gmu.edu/~eclab/papers/panait04ant.pdf Ant Foraging Revisited. Liviu Panait and Sean Luke. In ALIFE 9. http://cs.gmu.edu/~eclab/papers/panait04learning.pdf Learning Ant Foraging Behaviors. Liviu and Sean Luke. In ALIFE 9.

For more papers, see the EC Lab website.