# [SOIL](https://github.com/gsi-upm/soil)
Soil is an extensible and user-friendly Agent-based Social Simulator for Social Networks.
Learn how to run your own simulations with our [documentation ](http://soilsim.readthedocs.io ).
Follow our [tutorial ](examples/tutorial/soil_tutorial.ipynb ) to develop your own agent models.
## Citation
If you use Soil in your research, don't forget to cite this paper:
```bibtex
@inbook {soil-gsi-conference-2017,
author = "S{\'a}nchez, Jes{\'u}s M. and Iglesias, Carlos A. and S{\'a}nchez-Rada, J. Fernando",
booktitle = "Advances in Practical Applications of Cyber-Physical Multi-Agent Systems: The PAAMS Collection",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-59930-4_19",
editor = "Demazeau Y., Davidsson P., Bajo J., Vale Z.",
isbn = "978-3-319-59929-8",
keywords = "soil;social networks;agent based social simulation;python",
month = "June",
organization = "PAAMS 2017",
pages = "234-245",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
series = "LNAI",
title = "{S}oil: {A}n {A}gent-{B}ased {S}ocial {S}imulator in {P}ython for {M}odelling and {S}imulation of {S}ocial {N}etworks",
url = "https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-59930-4_19",
volume = "10349",
year = "2017",
}
```
## Mesa compatibility
Soil is in the process of becoming fully compatible with MESA.
As of this writing,
This is a non-exhaustive list of tasks to achieve compatibility:
* Environments.agents and mesa.Agent.agents are not the same. env is a property, and it only takes into account network and environment agents. Might rename environment_agents to other_agents or sth like that
- [ ] Integrate `soil.Simulation` with mesa's runners:
- [ ] `soil.Simulation` could mimic/become a `mesa.batchrunner`
- [ ] Integrate `soil.Environment` with `mesa.Model` :
- [x] `Soil.Environment` inherits from `mesa.Model`
- [x] `Soil.Environment` includes a Mesa-like Scheduler (see the `soil.time` module.
- [ ] Integrate `soil.Agent` with `mesa.Agent` :
- [x] Rename agent.id to unique_id?
- [x] mesa agents can be used in soil simulations (see `examples/mesa` )
- [ ] Document the new APIs and usage
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