Re: [Repast-interest] Continuous space

[North, M. <no...@an...>]

Russ:

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As an extra note, Chick Macal and Tom Howe have published a paper titled
"Who's Your Neighbor? Neighbor Identification for Agent-Based Modeling"
in the Agent 2006 conference proceedings
(http://www.agent2006.anl.gov/2006procpdf/Macal_Agent_2006.pdf) that
considers algorithmic issues related to collision detection and the more
general problem of finding agent neighbors.  It is possible to combine
watchers, the Repast Simphony query mechanism, and the algorithms
discussed in the paper to provide agents with automatic notification of
collisions (e.g., "tell me when someone runs into me" or "tell me when
someone moves near to me").

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Mike

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North, Michael
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Subject: Re: [Repast-interest] Continuous space

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Russ:

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Repast Simphony has continuous spaces, but not collision detection.
Depending on the number of agents that you are tracking, you could
potentially use the new watcher facility to implement collision
detection though.

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Mike

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Abbott
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 2:55 PM
To: repast-interest
Subject: [Repast-interest] Continuous space

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A short time ago, I asked about a continuous space (a space with
floating point coordinates) for Repast -- and associated utility
functions like collision detection. I was asked whether I intended to
use it in Repast Simphony or Repast J.  I said Repast J and got nothing
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Thanks.

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-- Russ Abbott
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California State University, Los Angeles
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