Animating interactions between agents who change their minds.

Honours project web-page for Andrew R. Jones.

My 2003 honours project: Animating interactions between agents who change their minds, is the focus of this web site. My supervisor was Dr. Alan Dorin.

Site overview

(Agent Ecosystem Library) - AEL is a discussion about the library built and used for the simulations.

The documentation for the AEL.

The simulations outlines each simulation, including results and discussions.

The code, animations, documation and my thesis are aviable from downloads.

Thesis abstract

The graphical animation of virtual agent-based ecosystems, with emphasis on the simulation of optimal foraging strategies, is investigated. The foraging strategies of the Canadian north western crows (Corvus caurinus) and the use of a nesting system in foraging are recreated in non-discrete animations. Agents in the simulations change their minds based on variations of the optimal foraging strategies investigated. This is done to investigate how different decisions affect foraging efficiency. The animations produce results that agree with field observations, showing us that graphically animated simulations can be an accurate representation of optimal foraging strategies. This thus provides us with a further tool for the investigation of these ecosystems.

Andrew R. Jones: jones@csse.monash.edu.au - last updated: Fri Nov 7 01:12:22 2003.