Social / Intelligence Simulation

Prerequisites

1. Julia 0.4.3
2. Version 0.3.x of NKLandscapes.jl
3. DataFrames.jl
4. ProgressMeter.jl
5. Gadfly.jl

To satisfy items (2) through (6) above:

• Linux: julia setup.jl
• Windows: julia.exe setup.jl

Setup

You'll need to create a configuration file for your simulation run. There is an example configuration, called example.jl in the configs/ subdirectory. You can copy this file and change the values if you'd like to add or run a new configuration.

The configuration file is a Julia program that simply defines a set of constants. You may create additional configurations and your may use any valid Julia code within the configuration file.

Running

To run the simulation once you have the prerequisites:

• Linux: ./run.sh <config>
• Windows: run.bat <config>

The value you pass in as <config> should be the path to your configuration file, but without the .jl extension. As an example, to run the example configuration on Linux:

./run.sh configs/example

To do the same on Windows:

run.bat configs\example

This should create four additional files in the same directory as the configuration file:

1. <config>.csv - the raw results from the simulation
2. <config>_maxFitness.svg - plot of max fitness in the population
3. <config>_meanFitness.svg - plot of mean fitness in the population
4. <config>_medianFitness.svg - plot of median fitness in the population