Also, if these IntBags are really “artifacts” owned or possessed by “agents”, they why not create separate objects called Artifacts or equivalent?
Each artifact would have variable of type Agent to identify it’s owner -- a single agent. Each agent would have a bag of “myArtifacts”. Upon request from another agent, the owner agent could transferOwnership() of the requested artifact, removing it from its own myArtifacts bag, and by calling a method in the artifact object: changeOwner(newAgentID). The artifact object could then signal completion of the transaction by calling addNewArtifact() method in the requesting agent, which would add it to myArtifacts.
On 8/11/13 6:18 PM, "Aódar Aliev" <[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Hello everyone,
I'm relatively new to mason as well as agent based modelling in general, and have been stuck with this problem for 2 days.
I need my agents to exchange IntBags with each other.
Within each agent I have a Bag called population which contains a set of IntBags. Each N steps I want my agents to find their closest neighbours and get certain number of IntBags from them.
My problem is that, while my agents are able to get IntBags obtaining copies of neighbouring ilk agents using map.getNeighboursExactlyWithinDistance(), I couldn't find a way to remove IntBags agent obtained from the source agent population.
Can anyone advice on how to do it?
Thank you in advance.
Best