RE: Instantiating multiple ModelSwarms

[Fred Wan]

Hi,

Does replicator also work with javaswarm? Would you recommend using
replicator (if it can be used with javaswarm) or following the
ManagerSwarm -> ObserverSwarm -> ModelSwarm structure?

>
> If you use Unix, there is a program called drone which can run your
> program over and over under many conditions and it keeps excellent
> records on what has been done.  The only part you need to do is enable
> the command line parameter processing and write a drone control file.
>
> On windows, we have trouble getting Drone to work, because the required
> library Expect won't compile.  So I wrote a perl program that can
> replicate a program and sweep through parameters, keeping good records
> on what's been done.  That's available
>
> http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/Swarm/MySwarmCode/replicator.pl
>
> We have tested that on windows and unix, works fine.
>
> I don't mean to say that Steve's approach won't work, but I spent a long
> time trying to make things like that work and never got it.  As I
> recall, the hangup is that you want a control panel for the multi-run
> experiment, and in addition you need a control panel for the individual
> run of the model, and making those two work together was a major
> problem. You will see, if you dig into it....
>
> Fred Wan wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for your reactions. The reason the ExperSwarm model is
> important is
> > that I need to parameterize _a lot_. Not only do I need to be
> able to test
> > different environments for the Multi-Agent System (e.g., obstacles, food
> > density), but I also need to be able change the design of the agent in a
> > systematic way and to (meticulously) record the results. As far as I'm
> > concerned there needs only to be only one swarm (maybe together with one
> > guiswarm) in which the model runs. The problems I encountered arise from
> > confusion about how the control flows are running from, to and between
> > swarms, activities, schedules, etc. Besides the obvious technical
> > intricacies, the whole conceptual model underlying Swarm is
> quite hard to
> > understand (though it is growing).
> >
> > All input is appreciated, so I'd like to receive the code for
> the Experiment
> > Swarm.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Fred Wan.
> >
> > address@hidden
> >
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