Awesome Software for Simulations

A curated list of awesome multi-agent simulation frameworks, tools & other repositories for simulations. Divided into sections corresponding to most popular programming languages. Feel welcome to make PRs.

Update 2023: now includes frameworks enabling reinforcement learning.

Legend:

🧠 - specialized frameworks for e.g. neural networks

🦠 - frameworks for bio-science

🚗 - autonomous vehicles

🧰 - general purpose frameworks

Quick jump to particular language

1. Python
2. R
3. Java
4. JavaScript
5. Matlab
6. Julia
7. C++

Frameworks and libraries

🐍 Python

General purpose

• 🧰 Mesa - Mesa is an agent-based modeling framework in Python.

• ai-economist - Foundation: An Economic Simulation Framework.

• simupy - A framework for modeling and simulating dynamical systems.

Reinforcement learning

• Mava - A library of multi-agent reinforcement learning systems and components.

• Gymnasium - A standard API for single-agent reinforcement learning environments, with popular reference environments and related utilities (formerly Gym, made by Farama Foundation).

• PettingZoo - A standard API for multi-agent reinforcement learning environments, with popular reference environments and related utilities (made by Farama Foundation).

Blockchain

• Simcoin - Blockchain simulation framework with Docker and Python.

SNN (Spiking neural networks)

• 🧠 Brian2 - Brian is a free, open source simulator for spiking neural networks. http://briansimulator.org

• 🧠 SpykeTorch - High-speed simulator of convolutional spiking neural networks with at most one spike per neuron.

R

Infectious disease dynamics

• 🦠 EpiModel - Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Disease Dynamics. http://epimodel.org

☕ Java

General purpose

• gama - Core plug-in projects of the GAMA platform. - https://gama-platform.github.io/

• 🧰 SARL Agent Programming Language - SARL Agent-Oriented Programming Language. http://www.sarl.io

Cloud services optimization

• cloudsim-plus - A modern, full-featured, easier-to-use, highly extensible, faster and more accurate Java 8+ Framework for Cloud Computing Simulation.

JavaScript

General purpose

• 🧰 js-simulator - General-purpose discrete-event multiagent simulation library for agent-based modelling and simulation.

Matlab

Navigation

• NaveGo - An open-source MATLAB/GNU Octave toolbox for processing integrated navigation systems and performing inertial sensors analysis.

Julia

General purpose

• 🧰 Agents.jl - Agent-based modeling framework in Julia.

• Causal.jl - A modeling and simulation framework adopting causal modeling approach. https://zekeriyasari.github.io/Causal.jl/dev/

C++

Autonomous vehicles

• 🚗 AirSim - Open source simulator for autonomous vehicles built on Unreal Engine / Unity, from Microsoft AI & Research.

Bioinformatics

• 🦠 PhysiCell - An Open Source Physics-Based Cell Simulator for 3-D Multicellular Systems.