Table of Contents
Swarmfest ‘99 Tutorial
Second session
Chapters in Simplebug tutorial
Bug in C
Bug in C - explanations
Bug in ObjC
Bug in ObjC: The bug as object
Typical create phase
Bug in ObjC II: The FoodSpace
The FoodSpace class
The power of inheritance
Bug in Swarm: The ModelSwarm
Creating a Swarm
Step I: Initializing
Details on createBegin method
Memory zones
Where did that zone come from?
Step II: Building the agents
Details on the buildObjects phase
Why createBegin vs. create?
Step III: Building schedules
Schedules
ActivityGroups
Implementation
Step IV: Activating the Swarm
Activation of schedule(s)
Bug in Swarm II: More bugs
Creating a population of agents
Activity and collections
Bug in Swarm III: Loading state
Bug with Observer: Adding GUI
Creating an ObserverSwarm
Step I: Initializing
Step II: Creating objects
Step III: Building schedules
Step IV: Activating the Swarms
Integration of Swarm activities
Multilevel activation
Merging two Swarms
Managing the Raster display
What do these new objects do?
Bug with Observer II: Add probes
How the probes come in...
Brief overview of probes
Creating graphic probe to object
Creating ModelSwarm’s probe
Final frontier: Experiment Bug
Multilevel activation
Two approaches to experiments
Two approaches: Pros and cons
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