[plt-scheme] PLanet should indicate which PLT version is required

>Can you describe an example of your agent-based simulation?>
>rac

Most of the agent-based simulations are cultural models where agents
represents cultural entities, e.g. individuals, groups (religious, ethnic,
etc) and the dynamics of these models represents the interactions among
these entities.  These are used for analyzing the implications of policies
and planning in multi-cultural domains.  [Basically an agent is a process
(in the simulation sense, not the OS sense) from the simulation collection,
each of which is typically an instance of an inference engine (from the
inference collection) running a rule set describing the agent dynamics.]

I have abstracted out the basic structure of an agent-based simulation and a
cellular automaton framework implemented using the simulation and inference
collections with some simple examples - the game of life implemented a
couple different ways (i.e, inferencing and non-inferencing) and a trivial
cultural model.  I plan on releasing the to PLaneT at some point, but need
to clean it up first.  [Note that this is really inefficient way to
implement a cellular automaton (like the game of life), but it works as a
simple example.]

Doug


On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 9:03 PM, Richard Cleis <rcleis at mac.com> wrote:

>
> On Mar 1, 2008, at 8:32 PM, Doug Williams wrote:
>
> My goal for this year is to extend the science collection and the new plot
> package I am working on (and to a lesser extent the simulation and inference
> collections) into something I am calling schemelab.  Basically, it would
> provide (as I said in the previous post) something similar to Python's
> numpy, scipy, and matplotlib for analysis, along with a simulation
> capability - I also do a fair amount of agent-based simulation in PLT
> Scheme.
>
>
> Can you describe an example of your agent-based simulation?
>
> rac
>
>
>
>
> Any ideas, etc would be welcome.  One thing I don't currently have in the
> science collection - and which is critical to the basic structure - is a
> good matrix representation/manipulation module.  I've implemented some for
> specific analyses I am doing, but they are very inefficient and not nearly
> as convenient as what numpy provides for Python.  If anyone can point me to
> some good implementations, or provide some ideas, it would be appreciated.
>
> Doug
>
> On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Richard Cleis <rcleis at mac.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mar 1, 2008, at 7:53 PM, Doug Williams wrote:
> >
> > The Python user's in this case went to it because it was an open-source,
> > free (as in beer) alternative to Matlab.  With scipy, numpy, matplotlib, etc
> > they put together a reasonable analysis package in Python.  But, they don't
> > tend to be fanatics about the language/tools as our Matlab users are.
> >
> >
> > My situation is: almost everyone uses Matlab, and they think that
> > anything else is a tool of fanatics :)
> >
> >   [And, tje Matlab users may have a point.  Matlab is a very good tool
> > for doing engineering analysis.  Although it is a bit expensive, per seat,
> > for small organizations and projects to justify sometimes.]   I am trying to
> > get them a similar level of capability in PLT Scheme, e.g. with the
> > science collection and a new plot collection, as they have with Python.
> >
> >
> > I haven't had time to implement your collections, but I am sure that
> > they could be useful for some of the operational tools that DrScheme hosts
> > here; analysis tools can be useful for synthesis, too.
> >
> > rac
> >
> >
> >
> > Doug
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 7:45 PM, Richard Cleis <rcleis at mac.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > On Mar 1, 2008, at 8:12 AM, Doug Williams wrote:
> > >
> > > > ...[I'll probably never win over the hardcore Matlab users, but the
> > > > Python users are a different story.]
> > >
> > > How/Why are the Pysters different?
> > >
> > > rac
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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