These tutorials teach you how to make your own computational models of the Roman economy. They offer step-by-step introductions to selected topics in computational modelling using real Roman archaeology case studies and datasets. We recommend beginners to first play with our explorable explanation Why Model? and then continue with the tutorial ‘First steps with Netlogo’.
First steps with Netlogo
This tutorial provides an introduction to creating agent-based network models with Netlogo. By working through this tutorial you will learn how to create nodes, create edges, perform layouts introduce probability in edge creation, create a trade process working on the network and how to derive network measures.
Download the Netlogo tutorial as a .pdf file
Please cite this tutorial as:
Brughmans, T. (2016). Network Science with Netlogo Tutorial, https://archaeologicalnetworks.wordpress.com/resources/#netlogo
Importing a transport network
This tutorial provides an introduction to downloading open Roman datasets via https://projectMERCURY.eu and importing them into a Netlogo model. We will use the ORBIS dataset (http://orbis.stanford.edu/) to create a set of Roman settlements and major routes between them.
Download tutorial as a .pdf file
Input data:
– ‘orbis.graphml’ (click download, the input data file is included in the folder ‘data’)
Please cite this tutorial as:
Brughmans, T. (2018). Importing a Roman Transport network with Netlogo, Tutorial, https://archaeologicalnetworks.wordpress.com/resources/#transport .
Network structures and assembling code in Netlogo
An introduction to assembling Netlogo code from different sources to create a complex archaeological model in a modular fashion. It uses as input a Netlogo model creating different network structures, a Netlogo model creating a Roman transport network, and a dataset representing a Roman transport network.
Download tutorial as a .pdf file.
Input data:
– Network structures model.
– Transport network model and data.
Please cite this tutorial as:
Brughmans, T. (2018). Network structures and assembling code in Netlogo, Tutorial, https://archaeologicalnetworks.wordpress.com/resources/#structures .