Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Matteo Richiardi
Author-Workplace-Name: Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School Nuffield College, Oxford, UK
Author-Email: matteo.richiardi@unito.it
Author-Name: Ross E Richardson
Author-Workplace-Name: Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School Nuffield College, Oxford, UK
Author-Email: ross.richardson@maths.ox.ac.uk

Title: JAS-mine: A new platform for microsimulation and agent-based modelling
Abstract: We introduce JAS-mine, a new Java-based computational platform that features tools to
support the development of large-scale, data-driven, discrete-event simulations. JAS-mine
is specifically designed for both agent-based and microsimulation modelling, anticipating a
convergence between the two approaches. An embedded relational database management
system provides tools for sophisticated input-output communications and data storage, allowing
the power of relational databases to be used within an object-oriented framework.
The JAS-mine philosophy encourages the separation of distinct concepts, objects and functionalities
of the simulation model, and advocates and supports transparency, flexibility and
modularity in model design. For instance, JAS-mine allows to store the list of regressors
and the estimated coefficients externally to code, making it easy to change the specification
of the regression models used in the simulation and achieving a complete parallelisation
between the tasks of the econometricians and those of the programmers. Moreover, tools
for uncertainty analysis and search over the parameter space are also built in.
X-Classification-JEL: 
Keywords: Simulation platform, Microsimulation, Agent-based, Software, Open-source.
Length: 22 pages
Creation-Date: 2016-06-21
Number: 2016-W04
File-URL: https://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/economics/papers/2016/Richiardi-Richardson%202016%20JAS-mine.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
Handle: RePEc:nuf:econwp:1604