Re: remember that question about agents with separate, asynchronous schedules?

[Doug Donalson]

Paul,

   The part of that thing that I sent you on schedules that describes
asynchronous schedules is one example of this type of schedule you are
asking about.  Instead of lumping all the actions into an action group, they
are inserted into the schedule on an individual basis.  This topic is sort
of "in for a dime, in for a dollar", and it's too late tonight to get into
details but if you haven't read that description and are really interested,
you should.  Basically, you create a schedule where when an event is
executed it is dropped from the schedule.  (The more common approach is do
the same group of actions at each time step.)  The way you tell the schedule
to do this is setting autodrop to 1 when you create the schedule.

Cheers,

   D3
----- Original Message -----
From: Paul E. Johnson <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 9:53 PM
Subject: remember that question about agents with separate, asynchronous
schedules?


> At Swarmfest, the starlogo demonstration showed a heatbug-sort of model
> in which the agents went through their paces as fast as they could and
> when an individual bug was done it would immediately start to step
> again, even if the others were not finished with their step yet.
>
> During the meeting, I wondered out loud to several people how that was
> done, or how Swarm might do it, and I got varying answers from "that is
> impossible" to "the activity library and schedules are intended to do
> things like that."   I like answer number two best.
>
> The only dynamic schedule examples I've seen are mousetrap and the
> swarmfest-demo99 that Benedikt prepared.  From looking at them, I'm not
> quite sure how I'd go about it.  To have time fine-grained enough to
> allow agents to finish their work before others seems to require a whole
> different kind of animal (as they say in texas).
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