Interactive simulations

help you grasp new ideas, test

theories, explore

complex processes.

Create your own simulations

superfast with AgentSheets

and deepen your own

understanding. Expand your

vision. What if.

AgentSheets.

“It’s often been said, ‘if you really want to understand something, teach it. ’ It seems equally true that one way of accomplishing real understanding is to try to simulate it. You need to know the underlying connections among a variety of forces to make a credible simulation. I have seen students who were less than motivated to complete traditional classroom projects put huge amounts of energy and effort into completing an AgentSheets simulation”.

John Zola, Educator

1AgentSheets is supported by the National Science Foundation

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AgentSheets® Amplify your Thoughts.

AGENTSHEETS IS A REVOLUTIONARY TOOL that lets anyone create agent-based interactive simulations and games through a user-friendly drag-and-drop interface. Create your agents using Visual AgenTalk®, tell them how you want them to act and react under various conditions, set the scene, and set your agents in motion. And when you’re ready, publish your simulation immediately on the Internet for others to see and use.

Why create simulations? Watch your agents interact and be surprised by what you’ll learn about your own thinking. Running simulations is an effective means of learning, but creating your own simulations challenges you to develop a thorough knowledge and understanding of your own ideas about a subject. Designing your agents’ behavior and setting the conditions they encounter gives rise to questions you might otherwise overlook. And after you’ve ironed out misconceptions and verified your facts, running your simulations will often prompt you to come up with new theories and scenarios. No matter what process you’re creating, testing, evaluating, AgentSheets can reveal consequences, implications, and levels of complexity you never dreamed of.

No other simulation tool gets your ideas out there on the web so fast. Projects you create in AgentSheets become complete Java applets at the press of a button. AgentSheets comes with Ristretto®, our Java generator that turns simulations directly into interactive Java applets – no Java programming experience required on your part.

People at every level of learning, from a wide range of disciplines are using AgentSheets to develop their own thoughts, work with others in clarifying ideas, and present their understanding to others on the internet. What about you? What processes would you like to better understand? What ideas do you want to illuminate and illustrate? When you’re ready to expand on your thoughts, AgentSheets is the tool.

Collaborative Learning: Elementary school students

learn about life science topics such as food webs and

ecosystems by designing their own animals. Groups of

students put their animals into shared worlds to study the

fragility of their ecosystems.

Scientific Modeling and Visualization:

Researchers working with NASA create models of the effects of microgravity on E.coli bacteria. This is a

simulation of an experiment that flew on the Discovery

space shuttle with John Glenn.

Learning by Taking Apart: What makes a bridge stable? Users remove as many bridge elements as possible without

collapsing the bridge. Implicit learning experiences include

forces, architecture, and geometric perspective. This simulation was featured on

PBS Mathline.

Process simulations: Pascal’s and Leibniz’ Adding

Machine simulation demonstrates the complex

relationships between gears and numbers and illustrates the

process of adding and multiplying numbers using this

machinery.

Learning Through Design: Even if the finished

simulation/game is not directly related to education, the

construction process is very educational. The Ultimate

Pacman is a complete game based on complex Artificial Intelligence algorithms and

non-trivial diffusion equations.

Complex Artificial Intelligence:

In a soccer simulation, agents representing players in teams collaborate and compete to score for their team with

diffusion-based AI algorithms. Diffusion of the presence of the

players is visualized in the picture as a superimposed 3D

graph.

Data gathering and analysis: Data generated from a

predator-prey simulation with small and large fish interacting

in a pond and graphed in AgentSheets can be exported to an Excel spreadsheet where it

can be analyzed and graphed in many different ways.

Distance Learning: With SimProzac, patients can

explore the relationships among Prozac, the

neurotransmitter serotonin, and neurons. By playing with this simulation in their browsers,

they get a better sense of what Prozac does than they could by reading the cryptic description

included with the drug.

Interactive Story Telling: High school social studies students create interactive

stories of historical events such as the Montgomery bus boycott

and the Cesar Chavez-led Grape Boycott.

The Pragmatic Web: Use multimodal end-user

programmable agents to bridge the gap between existing and relevant information on the

Web. Mountain biking agents give advice where to go and

what kind of clothing to wear based on real-time weather

information.

SimWhatever.