[Swarm-Modelling] Trying to locate a suitable model.

[Junkeh]

I am a final year undergraduate student in Computer Science, doing my honours project on cellular-based computing with Dr Martyn Amos. We are looking to do some work on intelligent searching of biological parameter space (eg. with genetic algorithms), and for that we need a model to act as the fitness function. I am hoping that someone can recommend to me a suitable existing model, as the emphasis will be on the forward simulation rather than on the biological realism of the model itself.

 

Preferably this model would run in NetLogo or Swarm and generate different spatial patterns depending on several 'tuneable' parameters. Ideally, the model could be used to create patterns resembling an iris (concentric rings for example); however any distinct pattern is desirable.  For example, a simulation of bacterial chemotaxis that generates "stripy" patterns under some conditions and "blobs" under others would also be appropriate.

 

If anyone knows of such a model and could point me in the right direction I would be most obliged. Of course, we will fully acknowledge the authorship of the existing model, and would offer co-authorship of any resulting articles (we anticipate at least one).

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Daniel McGreal