Re: Some newbie questions on swarm

[Willi Richert]

Some notes on my system:

Linux Suse 8.1,
gcc3.2,
tclsh8.4.

On Monday 06 January 2003 10:37, Willi Richert wrote:
> 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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