Software
Software:
Below is a list of software that is currently used by COSNet members (according to the profiles). Next to it you will find a brief description/categorization and a link to the product website or some other relevant webpage.Additionally, the standard programming languages C/C++, Delphi, Java, Fortran, Perl and Python are, of course, frequently used in the community.
Please direct questions or comments to the COSNet Data & Visualization Officer Frank Detering.
| Name |
Information |
COSNet
users |
| ArcInfo |
Commercial
Geographic Information System (GIS) package that allows database
management, contains maps and visualization and spatial analysis tools |
Karen
Blackmore, Paul
Box, |
| Cormas |
Freely available
agent-based modeling "framework and platform" that is developed at CIRAD in France (centre for
agricultural research for developing countries). |
Jean-Pierre
Muller |
| Crystal
Ball |
Commercial Risk analysis software
for risk analysis, simulation and optimization tasks. Works with
spreadsheet applications. |
Kostas
Alexandridis |
| ECJ |
Freely available
Java-based evolutionary computation research system developed and
available for download at George Mason University. Developed by the
same lab as MASON. |
Shane
Magrath |
| Ecolab |
Freely available agent-based
modeling "framework and platform". It contains C++ libraries and
uses TCL for scripting. |
Russel
Standish |
| EViews |
Commercial
econometrics software for statistical and econometric analysis,
forecasting, modeling and vizualisations of time-series or similar data. |
Sam
MacAulay |
| GAMS |
Commercial
General Algebraic Modeling System for modeling of various
optimization problems. Runs also in unlicensed version with limitations
on number of variables, constraints etc. |
Craig
Lynch, Cameron
Fletcher |
| Graphviz |
Freely available graph visualization
software for automated graph drawing. |
Russel
Standish |
| GRASS |
Freely
available Geographic Information System
(GIS) developed for geographical data management and analysis,
image processing, maps, spatial modeling and visualization. |
Paul
Box |
| Holistic
Discretization |
Free
web-based services to obtain the spatial discretisations of
dynamical partial differential equations and coupled PDEs in 1D. |
Anthony
Roberts |
| IDL |
Commercial data visualization and
analysis software consisting of a highlevel language and
interactive environment for large numerical computations and
visualization. |
James
Bashford, Chia-Ling
Chan, Frank
Detering |
| JAGA |
Freely available extensible and pluggable open-source API for implementing genetic algorithms and genetic programming applications in Java. | Greg
Paperin |
| Kenge |
Freely available agent-based
modeling extension to Swarm for creating
discrete2d surfaces from raster GIS data layers in order to create
"living" surfaces. |
Paul
Box |
| Leximancer |
Commercial text analysis software
for creating concept maps from unstructured texts. |
Louise
Young, Andrew
Smith |
| LiveGraph | Freely available framework for real-time data visualisation, analysis and logging. It is directed at exploratory data analysis of simulations and contains a real-time plotter and a data logging API. | Greg Paperin |
| Lifelab |
Shareware cellular automata
simulation software mainly for game of life applications. New and open
source follow-up versions are developed and distributed on sourceforge Golly. |
Tony
Smith |
| Micro
Saint |
Commercial discrete-event simulation software tool. | Ashok Kanagarajah |
| Maple |
Commercial computer algebra and
numerical analysis software. |
Richard
Clarke |
| MASON |
Freely available
agent-based modeling "framework and platform" written in and for
applications in Java. Developed by the same lab as ECJ. |
Shane
Magrath |
| Mathcad |
Commercial
numerical computation and engineering calculation software. |
Steve
Keen |
| Mathematica |
Commercial
computer algebra and numerical analysis software. |
Ryan
McAllister, Kostas
Alexandridis, James
Stokes, Bill
Lawless, Cameron
Fletcher, Peter
Dawson, James
Bashford, Robert
Dewar, Luis
R. Izquierdo |
| Matlab |
Commercial data visualization and analysis software consisting of a highlevel language and interactive environment for large numerical computations and visualization. | Kostas
Alexandridis, James
Stokes, Geoffrey
James, Richard
Clarke, Peter
Stratton, Larry
Robinson, Mark
Bowden, Bill
Lawless, Peter
Dawson, Tim
Kastelle, Steve
Keen, George
Leu, Mikhail
Prokopenko, Alex
Ryan, Xinghuo
Yu, Simon
Angus, Karen
Blackmore, Frank
Detering, Ryan
McAllister |
| Mimosa |
Freely available
meta-modelling and simulation platform developed in the same lab as
Cormas. |
Jean-Pierre
Muller |
| Multifractal analyser | Free web-based service maximum likelihood multifractal analyser of your 2D data. | Anthony
Roberts |
| nauty |
Freely available program for computing automorphism groups of graphs and digraphs. | Russel
Standish |
| netdraw,
ucinet |
Commercial software for
network visualization (netdraw is free download) and social network
analysis (ucinet) |
Aitken
Campbell, Malcolm
Alexander, Dale
William Hanson, Sam
MacAulay, Tim
Kastelle, Kostas
Alexandridis |
| Netica |
Commercial Bayesian network development software. | Kostas
Alexandridis |
| NetLogo |
Freely available
agent-based modeling environment. High-level language and
integrated graphical interfaces with extensive library of existing
models. |
Shane
Magrath, Cameron
Fletcher, Axel
Bender, Alex
Ryan, Baiding
Rong, Simon
Angus, Brett
Parris, Arnaud
Banos, Matthew
Berryman, Joseph
Lizier, Luis
R. Izquierdo, Paul
Bell |
| NetMiner |
Commercial software for exploratory network data analysis and visualization | Tim
Kastelle |
| OPNET |
Commercial
network simulation toolkits. Platform and modules to analyse
commmunication, transport and other types of networks. |
Shane
Magrath |
| Pajek |
Freely available
large network analysis and visualization software. |
Cameron
Fletcher, Malcolm
Alexander, Russel
Standish, Arnaud
Banos, Ryan
McAllister, Kostas
Alexandridis |
| PnET |
Freely available
ecosystem simulation software : " PnET is a suite of
three nested computer models which
provide a modular approach to simulating the carbon, water and nitrogen
dynamics of forest ecosystems." |
Malcolm
Alexander |
| R
|
Freely available software environment
for statistical computing and graphics. Similar to commercial S statistical programming language. |
Paul
Box, James
Bashford, |
| Repast |
Freely available agent-based
modeling "frameworkd and platform" for either Java, Python or .NET
(on windows) |
Xiaodong Li, Guofan Lu, Alex Ryan, Brett Parris, Arnaud Banos, Matthew Berryman, Ryan McAllister, Kostas Alexandridis, Paul Davis, Craig Lynch, Kathy Darzanos, Xianfeng Su, Geoffrey Carlin |
| Scilab |
Freely available numerical computation environment consisting of a highlevel language and interactive environment for large numerical computations and visualization. | Axel
Bender, Anthony
Roberts |
| SDE normal form | Free web-based service to obtain the normal form of any supplied stochastic differential equation (SDE), or deterministic ODE, when the SDE has fast and slow modes. | Anthony Roberts |
| StOCNET |
Freely available software system for the advanced statistical analysis of social networks. | |
| SPSS |
Commercial
software products for statistical data analysis, data mining and
other applications. |
Aitken
Campbell, Bill
Lawless |
| STATA |
Commercial
software for statistical analysis. |
Sam
MacAulay, Kostas
Alexandridis |
| Statnet |
Freely available software
libraries for the use in R: "Software tools
for the representation, visualization, analysis and simulation of
social network data" |
Malcolm
Alexander |
| Swarm |
Freely
available agent-based modeling "framework and platform" for either
Java or C++ based applications. |
Xiaodong
Li, Luis
R. Izquierdo, Kostas
Alexandridis, Paul
Box |
| Tierra |
Freely available software experiment of a system in which self-replicating machine code programs evolved by natural selection. | Russel
Standish |
| VisSim |
Commercial
software system to develop models and run simulations of nonlinear
dynamic systems using a block diagram language. |
Steve
Keen |
| VLAB |
Free virtual laboratory
with online java applets and tutorial to learn and discover about many
aspects of complex systems and complexity. |
Alex
Heng |
| WinBUGS |
Open software
project for flexible software
for the Bayesian analysis of complex statistical models using
Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods. The main site links to
different implementations (WinBUGS, OpenBUGS, GeoBUGS, etc.) |
Kostas
Alexandridis |
For suggestions/hint/questions please contact the COSNet Data & Visualization Officer.