MADS

MADS is an agent based framework designed towards implementing innovation diffusion related simulation. Besides being close to the theory, the framework intends to streamline the simulation creation process by providing an efficient means of attaining simple, maintainable and readable software, easy code management, publishing and reuse. This is a very important asset, since this kind of work is usually done in teams and each simulation makes use of large amounts of data and forecasts.

MADS targets a wide range of researchers, as besides the problem of simulating the diffusion of emergent technologies, like fuel cell vehicles or cogeneration systems, for which MADS was originally designed, the study of the diffusion of new products and technologies is very important both for marketing and socio-economic analysis.