Sophisticated computational modeling requires powerful software.  One of the primary goals of the NSF supported OMnI computational modeling grant was developing a powerful platform that would support a wide range of computational mod.

Nova is a software platform for computational modeling.  It uses a graphic interface to implement dynamic systems, agent-based, and spatial modeling and can be used for modeling neural nets.  Available for free for educational researchers, this program provides extensive online tutorials.

Darling, Salter, & Burns (in press) uses a series of examples to describe basic functions of Nova using a social science setting.

• Darling, N., Salter, R. M., & Burns, I. R. D. (in press). Nova: A novel tool for collaborative agent-based and dynamic systems modeling. In W. F. Porter, J. Zhao, L. Schmitt Olabisi, & M. McNall (Eds.), Innovations in Collaborative Modeling. Lansing, MI: MSU Press.
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