The ODD Protocol for describing individual-based and agent-based models
THE ORIGINAL ODD PAPER
ODD (=Overview, Design concepts, Detail) is desigend as a general protocol for communicating individual-based and agent-based
models. It has been formulated and tested by 28 authors:
Grimm V, Berger U, Bastiansen F, Eliassen S, Ginot V, Giske J, Goss-Custard J, Grand T, Heinz S, Huse G,
Huth A, Jepsen JU, Jørgensen C, Mooij WM, Müller B, Pe’er G, Piou C, Railsback SF, Robbins AM, Robbins MM,
Rossmanith E, Rüger N, Strand E, Souissi S, Stillman RA, Vabø R, Visser U, DeAngelis DL. 2006. A standard protocol
for describing individual-based and agent-based models. Ecological Modelling 198:115-126.
PDF.
The Online Appendix of the paper is available here: Online Appendix
UPDATE
A first update of ODD appeared in September 2010:
Grimm V, Berger U, DeAngelis DL, Polhill G, Giske J, Railsback SF. 2010. The ODD protocol: a review and first update.
Ecological Modelling 221: 2760-2768
where we reviewed the use of the ODD protocol so far and present an updated description and explanation of ODD's elements. ODD itself
was only slightly changed.
This is a template for using the updated ODD protocol: PDF
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