Re: interactivity & other general questions

[M Lang / S Railsback]

Vickie M Backus wrote:
> 
> i've just started seriously looking into using swarm for biological
> modelling and have a few questions i'm hoping maybe someone could take the
> time to answer.
> 
> 1) i've downloaded and intalled the jheatbugs application. it was my
> understanding that swarm was designed to be interactive, but when i change
> the number of bugs (or other parameters) in the HeabtbugModelSwarm dialog
> window nothing changes. i have to quit the simulation and start over every
> time i want to change something. do i have to do something special to get
> the changes to take affect? if i'm not missing anything and you have to
> keep restarting the program, is this an artifact of the jheatbugs program
> itself and can true user interactivity be easily coded into the swarm
> program.

If you go to the User Contributions page
http://www.swarm.org/community-contrib.html you'll find a couple fun
little demos we did that allow you to change parameter values as the
model runs. They also have a button that make stuff happen in the middle
of a run. Look for ClupeoidsV2.tar.gz .
 
> 3)mozilla and DOM: i'm a GIS user and the idea of easy integration of
> Swarm with ArcInfo is very appealing to me. when is the next release of

There's got to be a big market for Swarm-and-GIS. 

By the way there is a book that I believe is out now: Integrating
Geographic Information System and Agent Based Modeling Techniques for
Simulating Social and Ecological Processes. R. Gimblett, ed.. New York,
Oxford University Press.

Steve R.
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