《SWARM for Java 教程》.pdf

DRAFT jSIMPLEBUG: a Swarm tutorial for Java Charles P. Staelin Smith College Northampton, MA April 2000 based on OjbectiveC code and original text by Chris Lanton Swarm development team Santa Fe Institute, NM DRAFT 8:00 AM 04/14/00 jSimpleBug: a Swarm tutorial for Java Introduction This tutorial takes the user through the development of a Swarm model using the Java programming language. The model itself is a very simple one, but the application we build step by step around it makes use of a lot of the functionality of Swarm and demonstrates many of Swarms features. This Java-based tutorial borrows heavily from an earlier Objective-C-based tutorial by Chris Lanton and the Swarm development team. Indeed, the Java code is pretty much a loose translation of their Objective-C code and portions of the text are theirs as well. There are a number of changes, however, to reflect this tutorials focus on using Swarm with Java rather than Objective-C. We start out with a very simple Swarm simulation, one agent, a SimpleBug, taking a random walk on the X,Y plane. Through a progression of models we increase the number of agents and introduce basic object-oriented and Swarm-style programming in Java. The final version implements an experiment in which multiple invocations of the SimpleBug model are created, run, analyzed, reported on, and dropped. Along the way, we introduce many of the functions that Swarm provides for creating and interacting with multi-agent, artificial worlds. Although this is a relatively simple exercise, hopefully it will show how easy it can be to build fairly complex models from the simple building blocks provided by Swarm. There are