ArcInfo development

[Matteo Richiardi]

> Another big task, one that I won't pursue unless there is dedicated
> funding, is Swarm integration with ArcInfo 8. Via COM, it is
> possible to represent agents in ArcInfo 8 geodatabase landscapes and
> visualize them. This would involve adapting a variant of the XPCOM
> support in Swarm for Microsoft COM, and then building some models
> either with the IMT infrastructure (adding a GIS plug-in) or, IMO
> less-desirably, using Microsoft supported languages like Visual Basic,
> Java, or C#.

As a partner of an economic consultancy and a Swarm user, I am considering a
project that would require a Swarm model to be integrated with a geographic
sw. The project would require active fund-raising activities, but I am not
able to quantify the amount of resources we could access to. I'm actually
considering simply its feasibility, at a very preliminar stage.
Could you give me a rough idea of the effort required to implement this
integration, both in terms of time and money? Could you also give me some
hints on the required steps, and on the various funtional levels that would
be achieved?
Thank you very much.

Yours sincerely,

Matteo Richiardi

Matteo Richiardi
STEP studi di economia applicata
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