Swarm Fab Simulation

A simulator written in NetLogo for evaluating swarm-based job-shop algorithms.

The source ist available here: https://github.com/swarmfabsim/swarmfabsim.github.io

If you use this simulator, please cite the accompanying scientific paper:

Umlauft, M.; Schranz, M. and Elmenreich, W. (2022). SwarmFabSim: A Simulation Framework for Bottom-up Optimization in Flexible Job-Shop Scheduling using NetLogo. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Tech- nologies and Applications - SIMULTECH, ISBN 978-989-758-578-4; ISSN 2184-2841, pages 271-279. DOI: 10.5220/0011274700003274, Author’s copy free access: https://mobile.aau.at/publications/umlauft-2022-simultech-swarmfabsim.pdf

Installation

Step 1.a)

If you have git installed (recommended), then clone the repository

    git clone https://github.com/swarmfabsim/swarmfabsim.github.io.git

this creates a directory with the repo, inclusing a folder src

Step 1.b)

If you don’t want to use git, download the repository as a .zip file and extract it

Step 2

Install the latest version of the Netlogo desktop app

Step 3

Navigate to the src folder from your repository/download and open SwarmFab-Simulation.nlogo with NetLogo