Re: [Swarm-Modelling] financial modeling

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Jörg Kühne wrote:
> Have someone experience with financial modeling together with the swarm 
> simulation framework.
>
> Is it possible to apply shocks during the simulation?
>   
Most example models that exist for Swarm have the organization of an 
observer and a model Swarm where the observer controls the model by 
providing a GUI control panel for the user to start and stop the model, 
graph things, and so on.  Essentially everything is the same here, 
except that the observer would have a few more methods to 
programatically shock the model Swarm via Probes.   These methods could 
be scheduled to be automatic according a process you invent for your 
experiment, or just could be issued at the press of a button. 

A Probe in Swarm is an object that attaches to another and can send the 
attached object messages or read and write variables in that object.  
The intent of a probe is for this kind of application where the model 
stays in pristine unmodified condition, but nonetheless there is a 
desire to perturb the model from the outside. 

Marcus