Improving speed, scale and scope of models for improved real-world decision-making

This repo provides a working copy of our NetLogo / HPC project. We strive to drive usability of this work by providing editable copies of all documents and ask that you cite us if this is helpful in your research (see below).

Please remember to follow the copyrights included in all documents and scripts during any reproduction. Feel free to email us with any issues or suggestions.

The key steps for users to take this repo and extend it for their work is as follows:

1. Forward a copy of "workflow.docx" or .pdf file to your HPC infrastructure administrators, and ask them to adapt it to your HPC.
2. Use the modified "workflow.docx" or .pdf file adapted by your HPC infrastructure administrators.
3. Run our main script on a selected model of your own and verify that the results are equivalent (we provide the output of our script to verify this).
4. Adapt the scripts to your needs.

For a more detailed overview of the workflow, please navigate to the workflow folder (on GitHub) or read "workflow.docx".

In our experience, we found that HPC administrators are very proactive at responding to enabling HPC based research.

If you use the process provided, please cite it as follows: Thompson, J., Zhao, H, Seneviratne, S., Byrne, R., Vidanaarachichi, R. & McClure, R. (2021). Improving speed of models for improved real-world decision-making.