Breakfastclub is a multi-agent based social simulation platform of a virtual classroom that was developed to study the effect of different personality types on attention and happiness. It was developed as part of a Master Thesis by Manuel Pasieka at the university UNIR, under supervision of Prof. Dr. Michael Kickmeier-Rust.
From the master thesis abstract:
Agent-based models have proven to be a useful tool to study complex social phenomena. In this work we have developed a simulation using an agent-based model of a virtual classroom, simulating the behavior of students and adolescents in an autonomous study group. The agent cognition is based on the widely used Big-Five personality trait model, and agent behavior has been aligned with empirical studies showing how specific person- ality traits correlate with academic success. The simulation software was used to compare how different classroom compositions with an increasing ratio of students with Attention- deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) prototypical personality traits affect the classroom dynamics. We found a very strong effect of ADHD students on the mean classroom hap- piness and attention. Even a very small number of ADHD students can cause a shift in the behavior of None-ADHD students, decreasing their mean happiness and attention, in addition to more frequent classroom wide quarrels.
The latest version is v2.0 and can be found here
Binaries are provided for the Windows and macOS platforms compressed with 7zip
The master thesis itself is the most complete documentation of the project and can be found here
A short summary is available in form of a presentation here
A few special topics and a presentation of the project can be found here ...
Examples on how to run the simulation can be found in the working directory ...