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Installation and Launching

The GAMA platform can be easily installed on your machine: Windows, macOS or Ubuntu. Depending on user needs, GAMA can then be extended by using a number of additional plugins.

This part is dedicated to explain how to install GAMA, launching GAMA and extend the platform by installing additional plugins. All the known issues concerning installation are also explained. The GAMA team provides you a continuous support by proposing corrections to some serious issues through updating patchs. In this part, we will also briefly present another way to launch GAMA without any GUI : the headless mode.

Home

  1. What's new (Changelog)
  2. Migration Guide (2025-06 → 2026-06)

Platform

  1. Installation and Launching
    1. Installation
    2. Launching GAMA
    3. Updating GAMA
    4. Installing Plugins
  2. Workspace, Projects and Models
    1. Navigating in the Workspace
    2. Changing Workspace
    3. Importing Models
  3. Editing Models
    1. GAML Editor (Generalities)
    2. GAML Editor Tools
    3. Validation of Models
  4. Running Experiments
    1. Launching Experiments
    2. Experiments User interface
    3. Controls of experiments
    4. Parameters view
    5. Inspectors and monitors
    6. Displays
    7. Batch Specific UI
    8. Errors View
  5. Running Headless
    1. Getting Started
    2. Headless Legacy
    3. Headless Batch
  6. Exporting Projects As Simulation Launchers
  7. Preferences
  8. Troubleshooting

Learn GAML step by step

  1. Introduction
    1. Start with GAML
    2. Organization of a Model
    3. Basic programming concepts in GAML
  2. Manipulate basic Species
  3. Global Species
    1. Regular Species
    2. Defining Actions and Behaviors
    3. Interaction between Agents
    4. Attaching Skills
    5. Inheritance
  4. Defining Advanced Species
    1. Grid Species
    2. Graph Species
    3. Mirror Species
    4. Multi-Level Architecture
  5. Defining GUI Experiment
    1. Defining Parameters
    2. Defining Displays Generalities
    3. Defining 3D Displays
    4. Defining Charts
    5. Defining Monitors and Inspectors
    6. Defining Export files
    7. Defining User Interaction
  6. Classes and Objects
    1. Class Definition and Instantiation
    2. Attributes and Actions
    3. Inheritance
    4. Virtual Classes
    5. Advanced Features
  7. Exploring Models
    1. Run Several Simulations
    2. Batch Experiments
    3. Exploration Methods
  8. Optimizing Models
    1. Runtime Concepts
    2. Analyzing code performance
    3. Optimizing Models
  9. Multi-Paradigm Modeling
    1. Control Architecture
    2. Defining Differential Equations

Recipes

  1. Manipulate OSM Data
  2. Cleaning OSM Data
  3. Diffusion
  4. Using Database
  5. Using Dataframes
  6. Using FIPA ACL
  7. Using BDI with BEN
  8. Using Driving Skill
  9. Manipulate dates
  10. Manipulate lights
  11. Using comodel
  12. Save and restore Simulations
  13. Using network
  14. Writing Unit Tests
  15. Ensure model's reproducibility
  16. Going further with extensions
    1. Calling R
    2. Using Graphical Editor
    3. Using Git from GAMA

GAML References

  1. Built-in Species
  2. Built-in Skills
  3. Built-in Architecture
  4. Statements
  5. Data Type
  6. File Type
  7. Stats Extension
  8. Sound Extension
  9. BDI Extension
  10. FIPA Skill
  11. Expressions
    1. Literals
    2. Units and Constants
    3. Pseudo Variables
    4. Variables And Attributes
    5. Operators (Definition)
    6. Operators [A-A]
    7. Operators [B-C]
    8. Operators [D-H]
    9. Operators [I-M]
    10. Operators [N-R]
    11. Operators [S-Z]
  12. Exhaustive list of GAMA Keywords

Developing GAMA

  1. Installing the development version
    1. Install GAMA source code with Eclipse plugin
  2. Developing Extensions
    1. Developing Plugins
    2. Developing Skills
    3. Developing Statements
    4. Developing Operators
    5. Developing Types
    6. Developing Species
    7. Developing Control Architectures
    8. Index of annotations
  3. Introduction to GAMA Java API
    1. Architecture of GAMA
    2. IScope
  4. Using GAMA flags
  5. Export plugin : Technical Documentation
  6. Creating a release of GAMA
  7. Documentation generation

Tutorials

  1. Predator Prey
  2. Road Traffic
  3. Incremental Model
  4. Luneray's flu
  5. BDI Agents
  6. Forager RL
  7. SIR Analysis
  8. 3D Model

Community

  1. Team
  2. Projects using GAMA
  3. Scientific References
  4. Training Sessions

Versions of GAMA

Resources

  1. Videos
  2. Conferences
  3. Pedagogical materials

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