Re: [Swarm-Support] Asynchronous schedule

[Paul Johnson]

Good luck with your project.

I wrote some code for an Asynchronous schedule in 2 projects.

You can look here

http://lark.cc.ku.edu/~pauljohn/Swarm/MySwarmCode

The ballet dancing model (in the Dancer directory) has dancers who do 
steps that take a given amount of time, and some steps are long, some 
short.  So the agent takes a leap and then says to himself "schedule me 
again in 4 periods."  In the public opinion model (in OpinionFormation), 
you will find a bunch of C flags and commentary about different variants 
of scheduling.  The big question is "do you want one big schedule in the 
ModelSwarm where all actions get inserted?" as in Mousetrap, or do you 
want each agent itself to be a swarm with its  own schedule inside that 
one.

Before Swarmfest in Seattle, I did a ton of simulations on the various 
alternatives, and intended to write a full paper. Here's the presentation
http://lark.cc.ku.edu/~pauljohn/ResearchPapers/Presentations/Swarmfest02/DynamicScheduling/

I lost heart in writing a full paper because the simulations took forever.

There are Obj-c code examples in a series "pjrepeaterX.m". Those are in 
the SwarmFaq WorkingExampleCode directory.

Sorry, I've not been too interested in Java, but I think if you study 
the Obj-C code, you may at least understand where your work lies. And 
you will get a more specific set of questions to address to the Java users.

address@hidden wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm trying to build a Swarm (java version) model with timesteps dependant
> on the state of things at different times. Basically i want to draw the
> time to the next event from an exponential distribution, choose my event,


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