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Subject: RE : CORMAS question: nesting of groups
From: Christophe LE PAGE (christophe.l@chula.ac.th)
Date: Tue Nov 15 2005 - 04:31:58 CET
Hello Robert,
Yes, CORMAS allows this kind of nesting of groups, for social entities
(Group) as well as for spatial entities (Aggregate). In CORMAS, a group of
agents is an agent itself, an aggregate of spatial entities is a spatial
entity itself. By default CORMAS gives access to the components (as a list
of lower level entities, being themselves aggregated or not) from the
aggregated level, and it is up to the modeller to design specific properties
and behaviours directly at this aggregated level.
Best regards,
Clp
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Dr Christophe LE PAGE
CU-CIRAD
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science
Chulalongkorn University
Phyathai Road - Pathumwan
Bangkok 10330
THAILAND
Tel: +66 (0)2 219 2057
-----Message d'origine-----
De : Robert Muetzelfeldt [mailto:r.muetzelfeldt@ed.ac.uk]
Envoyé : lundi 14 novembre 2005 16:24
À : green@cirad.fr
Objet : CORMAS question: nesting of groups
Hello,
This is a quick question about CORMAS:
Can a CORMAS 'group' itself contain other groups, nested to any depth?
For example, can you have a group "village", made up of "people" agents,
then a group "region" made up of several "villages", then a group "country"
made up of several "regions" etc? If so, can each of the groups be
treated
as an agent in its own right - in other words, can a group have all the
properties and behaviours that an agent can have?
Thanks,
Robert Muetzelfeldt