Re: [Repast-developer] batch language

[Mark R. D. <mdi...@la...>]

Also, to give you an idea of how this looks in an Ant script here is one 
of my scripts (Note: my Model uses a Modified ParameterFileLoader class 
that loads single property values from a standard java properties file):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project basedir="." default="pva_analysis" name="PVA Batch Example">

    <!-- define my custom tasks here -->
    <taskdef name="batch" classname="org.mrd.ant.Batch">
        <classpath>
            <fileset dir="../../lib">
                <include name="**/*.jar"/>
            </fileset>
            <pathelement path="../../classes"/>
        </classpath>
    </taskdef>
    <taskdef name="beta" classname="org.mrd.ant.distributions.Beta">
        <classpath>
            <fileset dir="../../lib">
                <include name="**/*.jar"/>
            </fileset>
            <pathelement path="../../classes"/>
        </classpath>
    </taskdef>

    <!-- Define the batch targets here -->
    <target name="pva_analysis">
        <tstamp>
            <format pattern="yyyy_MM_dd-hh_mm_ss" property="time"/>
        </tstamp>
        <property name="pva_survivalMean" value="0.98"/>
        <property name="pva_survivalVar" value="0.015"/>
        <property name="pva_reproductionMean" value="0.55"/>
        <property name="pva_reproductionVar" value="0.05"/>
 
        <batch iterations="5" name="run">
            <!-- the iteration number gets stored under the property 
"run" -->
            <beta name="run_survial" mean="${pva_survivalMean}" 
std="${pva_survivalVar}"/>
            <beta name="run_reproduction" mean="${pva_reproductionMean}" 
std="${pva_reproductionVar}"/>
            <antcall target="createProperties"/>
            <antcall target="execute"/>
        </batch>
    </target>

    <target name="createProperties">
        <mkdir dir="./results/${time}/run_${run}"/>
        <propertyfile comment="PVA simulation Run # ${run}" 
file="./results/${time}/run_${run}/cagn.properties">
            <!-- Add parameters here to put into properties file -->
            <entry key="ModelInitialPairs" value="100"/>
            <entry key="ModelMaxIterations" value="500"/>
            <entry key="PairSurvivalProbability" value="${run_survial}"/>
            <entry key="PairReproductionProbability" 
value="${run_reproduction}"/>
        </propertyfile>
    </target>

    <target description="Running Simulation" name="execute">
        <java classname="org.mrd.examples.simple.Main" 
dir="./results/${time}/run_${run}" failonerror="false" fork="true">
            <arg value="-i"/>
            <arg value="'./cagn.properties'"/>
            <arg value="-h"/>
            <arg value="'../../../habitatspace.pgm'"/>
            <arg value="-l"/>
            <arg value="'../../../logconfig.xml'"/>
            <arg value="-b"/>
            <arg value="'../pva_results.txt'"/>
            <arg value="-r"/>
            <arg value="'run_results.txt'"/>
            <classpath>
                <pathelement location="../../classes"/>
                <!--pathelement location="G:\repast1.4\repast\src\src"/-->
                <fileset dir="../../lib">
                    <include name="**/*.jar"/>
                </fileset>
            </classpath>
            <jvmarg value="-Xms128m"/>
            <jvmarg value="-Xmx256m"/>
        </java>
    </target>

</project>