soil/README.md

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.

Follow our tutorial to develop your own agent models.

Citation

If you use Soil in your research, don't forget to cite this paper:

@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:
  • Soil.Environment inherits from mesa.Model
  • Soil.Environment includes a Mesa-like Scheduler (see the soil.time module.
• Integrate soil.Agent with mesa.Agent:
  • Rename agent.id to unique_id?
  • mesa agents can be used in soil simulations (see examples/mesa)
• Document the new APIs and usage

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