[starlogo-users] Geographic Multi-Agent systems

[Kent Paul Dolan]

In a Usenet discussion of how to implement multiple
agent systems free roving over a cellular automaton
background, in which I mentioned starlogo as a
possible implementation language, because the
subject has come up here off and on, and recently,
the following paper was cited. Several starlogo
users may find it of interest as a discussion of the
same concepts.

http://www.geocomputation.org/2003/Papers/Benenson_Paper.pdf

xanthian.

Question: Has anyone here implemented such a system
in which the agents not only read date from the
underlying cellular automaton, but also write data
into it, thus modifying its cell contents and thus
its operation, or has the cellular automaton always
run decouple from the agents influence?

This would, in starlogo, be more than merely turtles
writing into patches, it would also mean turtles
writing into the patches while those patches were
simultaneously operating as a cellular automaton,
and doing so in such a was as to modify that part of
the patch contents that are the cells state from the
viewpoint of the cellular automaton.