mining sugarscape

[Sharon Gifford]

I want to adapt sugarscape so that after an agent visits a site, it continues 
to generate "sugar" for that agent, as if the agent had set up an ongoing 
mining operation that continues to operate while the agent leaves to explore 
for additional sites.  However, others can also mine the same site, reducing 
the amount of sugar available for others who mine the site.  Each agent can 
return to the site to improve the performance of that agent's mine.  I have the 
Multi2D files for multiple occupancy from the Swam http site and Paul Johnson's 
"culture", and will probably use a listOfMines like the listOfFriends in 
hello-world to keep track of each agent's mines.  However, each cite now seems 
to be an object itself, whose behavior changes each period depending on how 
many agents have visited it.  Is it best to create a pair of .h and .m files 
for a class of "cites" objects?  Has anyone done anything like this before.  
I'm still a novice with Swarm and very afraid to try this alone.

Sharon
Prof. Sharon Gifford
Faculty of Management
Department of Finance and Economics
Co-Director Center for Entrepreneurial Management
Rutgers University
180 University Avenue
Newark, NJ 07102
973-353-1646
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~sgifford/webpage.html/



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