CORMAS Tutorial

Cormas Tutorial 1 CIRAD Land and Resources Programme CORMAS COMMON-POOL RESOURCES AND MULTI-AGENTS SYSTEMS Tutorial 1 Manipulation of an existing example and creation of a new model January 2003 1 Cormas Tutorial 1 1. Introduction _____________________________________________________________ 3 1.1.Purpose______________________________________________________________ 3 1.2.Prerequisites _________________________________________________________ 3 2.The Cormas interface ______________________________________________________ 3 3. Manipulating an existing example ___________________________________________ 4 3.1 Getting the Conway model ______________________________________________ 4 3.2. Loading the Conway model_____________________________________________ 4 3.3 Inspect the code _______________________________________________________ 5 3.3.1 The transition function _______________________________________________ 5 3.3.2. Code of the Controller 6 3.4 Opening of the spatial grid 8 3.5 Defining a point of view ________________________________________________ 8 3.6 Choosing a scenario for a simulation______________________________________ 9 3.7 Choosing a point of view 10 3.8 Running the simulation 10 3.8.1 Simulation of the current scenario ____________________________________ 10 3.8.2 Choose another initial state __________________________________________ 11 3.9. Viewing the charts ...