<s>
GAMA	O
(	O
GIS	B-Application
Agent-based	O
Modeling	O
Architecture	O
)	O
is	O
a	O
simulation	B-Application
platform	I-Application
with	O
a	O
complete	O
modelling	O
and	O
simulation	O
integrated	B-Application
development	I-Application
environment	I-Application
(	O
IDE	O
)	O
for	O
building	O
spatially	O
explicit	O
agent-based	O
simulations	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
GAMA	B-Language
Platform	I-Language
is	O
agent-based	O
modeling	O
software	O
that	O
was	O
originally	O
(	O
2007-2010	O
)	O
developed	O
by	O
the	O
Vietnamese-French	O
research	O
team	O
MSI	O
(	O
located	O
at	O
IFI	O
,	O
Hanoi	O
,	O
and	O
part	O
of	O
the	O
IRD	O
-	O
SU	O
International	O
Research	O
Unit	O
UMMISCO	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
GAMA	B-Language
Platform	I-Language
is	O
free	B-License
and	I-License
open-source	I-License
software	I-License
,	O
released	O
under	O
a	O
GNU	B-License
General	I-License
Public	I-License
License	I-License
(	O
GPL3	B-License
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
written	O
in	O
Java	B-Language
and	O
runs	O
on	O
the	O
Java	B-Language
virtual	I-Language
machine	I-Language
(	O
JVM	B-Language
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
All	O
core	O
components	O
and	O
extensions	O
are	O
written	O
in	O
Java	B-Language
,	O
but	O
end	O
users	O
do	O
not	O
need	O
to	O
work	O
in	O
Java	B-Language
at	O
all	O
if	O
they	O
use	O
a	O
published	O
build	O
of	O
the	O
platform	O
;	O
instead	O
,	O
they	O
would	O
write	O
all	O
models	O
using	O
GAML	O
(	O
described	O
below	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
and	O
the	O
environment	O
,	O
with	O
special	O
emphasis	O
on	O
analyses	O
that	O
use	O
GIS	B-Application
data	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
high-level	O
language	O
was	O
inspired	O
by	O
Smalltalk	B-Application
and	O
Java	B-Language
,	O
GAMA	O
has	O
been	O
developed	O
to	O
be	O
used	O
by	O
non-computer	O
scientists	O
.	O
</s>
