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From: | Darren Schreiber |
Subject: | Re: the question from a beginner |
Date: | Mon, 25 Sep 2000 16:52:43 -0700 |
To get a better idea of what others have used Swarm for, look at the examples on the Swarm.org website (http://www.swarm.org/community-links.html). As to the question of whether Swarm is the "best" tool for you to use, my guidance would simply be that Swarm is a good tool with a pretty active user community. Swarm is harder to learn than coding a model in Mathematica or Star-Logo, but I believe more powerful, flexible, and faster (certainly than Mathematica). On the other hand, I think it is easier to get a sophisticated agent-based model running in Swarm than coding one yourself from scratch in another language.
On a slight tangent, I think one of the greatest strengths of Swarm is that there are a lot of agent-based modeling relevant conventions. Since most folks learned by tinkering with some pre-existing model (e.g. Heatbugs), people tend to follow pretty similar patterns in writing their own models. As a result, I can frequently find how I screwed up by grabbing a few example models and comparing them to my own. This is certainly a major advantage over the ad-hoc way that most programmers writing agent-based models do things. And, it has the potential scientific benefits from cumulation of knowledge. Thank God I didn't have to write my own random number generators and I could look at others' code for ideas on a variety of other decisions I faced.
DarrenP.S. I took the liberty of moving the discussion to the swarm-modelling list, since it seemed more appropriate here.
At 12:26 PM 9/25/00 -0700, you wrote:
hi,everyone: I am a beginner.I want to know the power of swarm. In other words, with the swarm, which simulation can I do? If I want to simulate one enterprise with many suppliers and customers, Is it a good decision to useswarm? If it is not the best decision, which tools should I use? BTW, is there anybody from ASU? Thank you very much Regards Dawei Zhang Sep 25,2000 ================================== Swarm-Support is for discussion of the technical details of the day to day usage of Swarm. For list administration needs (esp. [un]subscribing), please send a message to <address@hidden> with "help" in the body of the message.
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