MASON is a multi-agent simulation environment developed in

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Development

MASON is developed at

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's Evolutionary Computation Laboratory in conjunction with the GMU Center for Social Complexity. First released in 2003, the environment continues to be maintained and kept up to date. The name, as well as referring to the parent institution, derives from the

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Multi-Agent Simulator Of Neighborhoods (or Networks). MASON development started within the Java.net environment, then moved to Google Code and is now at

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. Whilst MASON is less extensive than other similar libraries it is designed with simplicity and execution speed as a priority.

Applets

Applets developed using MASON include Craig Reynolds' Boids algorithm, ''Balls and Bands'', a simulation of

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, an L-system generator,

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, Sugarscape and autonomous multi-robot systems. MASON may be used with the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mason Cellular automaton software Self-organization Theorem proving software systems Artificial life Agent-based model Free software programmed in Java (programming language) Software using the Academic Free License

Development

Applets

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