Some newbie questions on swarm

[Willi Richert]

Hi,

I am starting my thesis where I will study the behaviour of agents. These 
agents shall observe each other and copy those behaviours which seem very 
rewarding to themselves.

I've read some papers (citeseer) about swarm and am excited - it has 
advantages very teambots looked very disadvantegous to me. This hierarchical 
structure, the idea that observers are also just agents - all this show me 
that many brain work has been done on swarm.

Nevertheless there are some questions:
1) (you guested the first one ;-) Is swarm really suited to my study or is 
swarm only for simple algorithms executed by millions of agents?
2) Is swarm actively maintained?
3) Is there a Python port so that I can script it in Python?
4) Is MAML the way of choice for desigining my model, or will I have in either 
case to handcraft my simulation code?
5) Are there some papers available regarding my work in connection with swarm?


Many thanks in advance,
willi richert, 
University of Paderborn,
Germany

PS:
When I try to install it, I get:
checking for tclsh8.3... no
checking for tclsh8.2... no
checking for tclsh8.1... no
checking for tclsh8.0... no
checking for tclsh... yes
checking directory of tcl.h... no
configure: error: Please specify Tcl header path using --with-tcldir or 
--with-tclincludedir

My installed rpms:
wr:/home/wr/suse # rpm -qa | grep tcl
postgresql-tcl-7.2.2-16
tcl-8.4-64
itcl-3.3-41
wr:/home/wr/suse # rpm -i ./2/suse/noarch/spectcl-1.1-576.noarch.rpm
wr:/home/wr/suse # rpm -qa | grep tcl
postgresql-tcl-7.2.2-16
tcl-8.4-64
itcl-3.3-41
spectcl-1.1-576


What is missing? (question 6? ;-)

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