Re: [FRIAM] Open Source Project?

2007-01-01 Thread Owen Densmore
It's all fine and good to try to lower the cost of entry to ABM, but to get science done ABMers need a way to say something precise and have it understood by theorists. Pretty visual programming systems, GIS, etc. don't necessarily accomplish that. I totally agree, and indeed we've

Re: [FRIAM] Open Source Project?

2006-12-31 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Owen Densmore wrote: Just a poll of sorts: 1 - If you/we were to start an open source project, what would it be? 2 - What open source project would you like to see happen? I'd like to see an interactive functional language like Haskell improved to quickly compile and distribute code

Re: [FRIAM] Open Source Project?

2006-12-31 Thread Owen Densmore
1 - If you/we were to start an open source project, what would it be? Well, from our side of the world, obviously a killer simulation environment. This would include a pipe or port interoperability amongst many useful components including the agent modeler, landscape/gis agent