Sugarscape

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Sugarscape

• Andy Menke

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Agent Based Modeling

• Simple agents complex behavior
• Boids

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Sugarscape

• Simulates human culture and society
• Agents need to collect sugar to survive
• Only traits (at first) vision and metabolism

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My Programs Structure

• Driver GUI classes
• ScapeG
• Scape
• Location
• Agent/Breeder

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First Quarter

• Basic framework
• Scape file (2500 numbers...)?
• Basic display capabilities

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Second Quarter

• Agents (A really big deal)?
• Solved issue with agents going to right side
• Graphical user interface
• First rules

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Next Steps

• Complete agent death/breeding
• Graphing of trends with JFreeChart
• Creation of API/documentation
• Release under the GPL?