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public void 	getNeighborsMaxDistance 	OR
		getNeighborsHamiltonianDistance	OR
		getNeighborsHexagonalDistance	OR
				( 	final int x,
					final int y,
					final int dist,
USE TRUE HERE ----->			final boolean toroidal,
					[Bag result,]
					IntBag xPos,
					IntBag yPos )


Gabriel

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> Date:    Thu, 28 Sep 2006 13:55:38 -0400
> From:    Michael Makowsky <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: wrapped torus
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> How do I make the sparseGrid2D wrap around when evalating neighborhoods?
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> Date:    Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:35:09 -0400
> From:    Keith Sullivan <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: wrapped torus
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> Mike,
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> The methods getNeighbors* all have a toroidal flag you can pass in.
> Just set to true.
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> Keith
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> On Sep 28, 2006, at 1:55 PM, Michael Makowsky wrote:
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> > How do I make the sparseGrid2D wrap around when evalating
> > neighborhoods?
> >
> >
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> > mike
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> > Michael Makowsky
> >
> > H.B. Earhart Fellow
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> > Graduate Student
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> > Department of Economics, 3G4
> >
> > George Mason University
> >
> > Fairfax, VA 22030
> >
> > 703.608.1366
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> > [log in to unmask]
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> > homepage http://mason.gmu.edu/~mmakowsk
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> Date:    Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:04:37 -0400
> From:    Claudio Cioffi-Revilla <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Repast vs Mason: Cultural Diffusion Modeling
>
> Thank you, Günther. Consider joining ESSA  ;-)
>
> Even better, put this on your calendar:
>
> 2nd World Congress on Social Simulation
> George Mason University
> July 2008
>
> Bring your friends too and meet Team MASON
>
> Claudio
>
> --
> Claudio Cioffi-Revilla
>
> Professor of Computational Social Sciences
> Director, Center for Social Complexity
> Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University
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>
> on 9/28/06 6:20 AM, Günther Greindl at [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
> > Hello Sean, Tony, Claudio,  Mike,
> >
> > thank you all for your answers, community = top notch :-))
> >
> > * Claudio wrote:
> >> you should consider MASON if you need:
> >> -replicability guarantee
> >> -computational and visualization separation for
> >> -lots of runs (>103) without viz every run  ;-)
> >> -checkpointing for stats analysis
> >> -evolutionary computational methods, as common for assessing learning.
> >
> > That is indeed exactly what I need. Especially visualization is very
> > important, as I want to experiment with a few different approaches here.
> >
> >> We will make sure to send you the revised
> >> paper as we develop it.
> >
> > Please do, I would be very glad, I've already printed the paper and am
> > currently reading it :-)
> >
> >> Both Epstein and Axtell
> >> (now at our Center, no longer Brookings) provided input.
> >
> > Wow. Cool! :-) I thoroughly enjoyed their Sugarscape book and it was
> > a source of great inspiration.
> >
> > * Tony wrote
> >
> >> I'm just about to release my source code (refreshing it for MASON 11
> >> and doing general cleanup/commenting) and you'll be welcome to look at
> >> or use it.  I implemented 70-75% of the rules and outcomes in Growing
> >> Artificial Societies.
> >
> > I'm looking forward to your code.
> >
> >> Any kind of complex cognitive architecture will fly against the
> >> philosophy of Sugarscape, but is interesting that the agents have no
> >> overt memory to use in reasoning/(ir)rational decision making.
> >
> > That is the big question - of course, the traditional CAS approach is
> > to keep the individual components simple. But in the social simulation
> > community voices have been raised (and I tend to concur - with reservations
> > ;-) -
> > that to make sensible descriptions of human societies one cannot completely
> > neglect the cognitive aspect.
> >
> > I think one should iterete into more complex agents slowly, and see what
> > happens.
> > Generative science in the best sense ;-)
> >
> >> As agents/models become more complex they will
> >> become more difficult to understand and in turn establishing causality
> >> between code and simulation outcomes.  Given the very little
> >> replication that has occurred in this field, in general, there are many
> >> open questions.
> >
> > That is quite true. I am just starting out with my Ph.D on this topic
> > (cultural diffusion modeling), and I'm not yet sure where it will take me -
> > more into the philosophy of science section, as in "how applicable are the
> > results", "is generative science real science" etc; or into the design of
> > cognitive agents useful for simulation; or a return to the simple agent and
> > adjusting the interplay of agents. All exciting questions :-)
> >
> > One more thing: what I certainly intend to do is distribute the simulation
> > in a second step (long term goal); if I use cognitive agents, there will be no
> > other way to do simulation sensibly - does MASON lend itself easily to this?
> >
> > I know that you can add distributed support to Repast Models quite easily.
> >
> > Kind Regards and thank you for your responses,
> > Günther
> >
> > P.S.
> >> Alles gut
> >> Claudio
> >
> > Danke :-)
>
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