How to document agent-based models?
A standard rule is that one should be able to replicate the basic results of your research. Simple models should be documented in such a way, that a colleague is able to reimplement the model and derive similar results. It is striking that some results of models published in high level journals were difficult to be replicated. At least the assumptions others had to made led to doubt whether the results were robust. Within openabm.org we use the ODD protocol of Grimm et al. (2006) as a starting point for model documentation.
