crafty-abm / crafty_documentation

The elaborated documentation imported from the previous Confluence wiki (https://www.wiki.ed.ac.uk/display/CRAFTY)

Welcome to the documentation for the CRAFTY agent-based modelling (ABM) framework. In the wiki, you can find instructions for installing and using CRAFTY, descriptions and details of the framework, and example applications.

CRAFTY is a large-scale ABM of land use change. It has been designed to allow efficient but powerful simulation of a wide range of land uses and the goods and services they produce. It is fully open-source and can be used without the need for any programming. An ODD description (1) is available here.

• At first, you might want to get to know CRAFTY's [Features and Model Structure.
• [It is then a good idea to choose the CRAFTY version you like to apply. Whereas the main documentation is tailored to basic CRAFTY, the other versions are described in section Special Versions Documentation. The subpages contain lists of particular versions' features, but you may see here for an overview.
• Then, go ahead getting started with CRAFTY, including hints for getting help.
• To configure your first model, but also for further reference the Model Setup Documentation is important.
• Inspiration and ideas on how to represent specific issues may come form the Applications section.

If you need some valuable hints on developing the internal CRAFTY code, don't miss Development.

In case you're looking for specific information an are not able to find it, drop an email to [email protected] or [email protected] saying what you miss and where you are expecting that information.

Versions

Currently, there are several editions/branches maintained (repositories at bitbucket contain the latest development including patches, template downloads usually contain the latest minor version including libraries):

CRAFTY_Trunk	Basic version. Mainly maintained for backward compatibility	Download Template	Template at Bitbucket	CRAFTY at Bitbucket
CRAFTY_Social	Supports social networks and social interaction	Download Template	Template at Bitbucket	CRAFTY_Social at Bitbucket	JavaDoc
CRAFTY_Parallel	Supports cluster runs and includes code of CRAFTY_Social	see CRAFTY_Social	see CRAFTY_Social	CRAFTY_Parallel at Bitbucket
CRAFTY_CoBRA	COmponent Based Role Agents for cognitive agents and comprehensive modelling of institutions	Download Template	Template at Bitbucket	CRAFTY_CoBRA at Bitbucket	JavaDoc

JavaDoc and the wiki usually relate to the CRAFTY_Social version. The section 'Special Versions Documentation' contains more information about particular versions' features and documentation.

Related Software

There is an R packages craftyr https://bitbucket.org/geoslurg/craftyr to support generation of batch runs and do post-processing. See the post processing page https://www.wiki.ed.ac.uk/display/CRAFTY/Post-Processing for installation instructions.

The elaborated documentation imported from the previous Confluence wiki (https://www.wiki.ed.ac.uk/display/CRAFTY)