SOARS Tutorial

Hiroshi Deguchi and Manabu Ichikawa

SOARS - Spot Oriented Agent Role Simulator - is a new type agent based simulation language, which requires no skills of programming languages. This simulation language is designed for everyone to use easy and what all you have to do to use it is to study few hours to get some basic skills for modeling. SOARS also supports making web based a simulation of gaming. For gaming creators, SOARS helps you to make computer based gaming easily. To get more information about SOARS, please visit SOARS Project Official Website, http://www.soars.jp. In this tutorial, we are going to introduce the history, the concept and some social simulation models of SOARS, and also teach how to make a social simulation model by SOARS. We are planning to make a basical model, which we called "family model". In this model, daily activities of members of a family are represented. The model simulates their daily life visually. The tutorial gives you the concept of social simulation and basic skill to build an agent-based simulation model by SOARS.

Keywords: social simulations; agent-based modelling; soars; systems science

Equipments: Your PC with Java 6.0 or higher (SOARS supports Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, MacOS X, Linux)