Re: [Swarm-Support] Examples of Nested Swarms?

[Steve Railsback]

Kavita Gangal wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I wanted to know whether there are any examples available of the 
> Multiple or Nested swarms.

We (Steve Jackson did the coding) wrote a salmon model in which each 
life stage (adults migrating upstream, juveniles living in streams, 
juveniles migrating to the ocean, and adults in the ocean) is a 
different swarm, with different spaces and schedules etc. In fact, the 
juvenile model has multiple swarms for each stream that fish spawn 
in---the number of these swarms is determined from the input files. When 
a fish survives from one life stage to the next, it is removed from one 
swarm and added to another.

We've never published the model except in an informal report but I would 
be happy to send you the code & report. I have rashly claimed it to be 
the gnarliest Swarm code ever, but Tim Kohler and others might disagree.

Steve Railsback