VISA: A Structured Description Protocol for Agent-Based Simulation Models Towards Machine Reproducibility
Agent-based models (ABMs) are difficult to reproduce: their behavior is spread across prose narratives, platform-specific code, and implicit assumptions, so that two readers routinely reconstruct different models from the same documentation. We present VISA, a structured, symbol-based description protocol that specifies a model in eight interconnected tables---four at the agent level (Agent, Va…