| Class summary | |
|---|---|
| experiment | inherits from blackboard and configuration |
| interaction | inherits from blackboard |
| Method summary | |
|---|---|
| agents | experiment |
| communicated-successfully | interaction |
| current-interaction | thing &key |
| determine-interacting-agents | experiment interaction mode &key |
| experiment | interaction |
| hearer | object &key &allow-other-keys |
| id | experiment |
| interact | experiment interaction &key |
| interacting-agents | thing |
| interacting-agents | interaction |
| interaction-number | interaction |
| interactions | experiment |
| owner | interaction |
| population | experiment |
| print-object | (experiment experiment) stream |
| run-batch | experiment number-of-interactions number-of-series &key &allow-other-keys |
| run-interaction | experiment &key |
| run-series | experiment number-of-interactions &key &allow-other-keys |
| series-number | experiment |
| speaker | object &key &allow-other-keys |
| world | experiment |
| Function summary | |
|---|---|
| run-batch-for-different-configurations | &key experiment-class number-of-interactions number-of-series monitors shared-configuration configurations (output-dir (error "Please supply an :output-dir for monitoring")) |
class for experiments
| id | [Initarg] |
| :agents :population | [Initarg] |
| :series-number | [Initarg] |
| :world | [Initarg] |
| :interactions | [Initarg] |
| id | [Slot] |
id of the experiment
| agents | [Slot] |
A list of agents to be used in the experiment.
| series-number | [Slot] |
The series counter.
| interactions | [Slot] |
a list of interactions
Returns and (with setf) changes the interactions of the specified experiment
Returns and (with setf) changes the world of the specified experiment
Returns and (with setf) changes the series-number of the specified experiment
Returns and (with setf) changes the agents of the specified experiment
Returns and (with setf) changes the agents of the specified experiment
| :experiment | [Initarg] |
| :interaction-number | [Initarg] |
| :interacting-agents | [Initarg] |
| interaction-number | [Slot] |
A interaction counter that is increased with every interaction
| interacting-agents | [Slot] |
The agents that are involved in the current interaction
| communicated-successfully | [Slot] |
Whether the interaction was a success.
Returns and (with setf) changes the communicated-successfully of the specified interaction
Returns and (with setf) changes the interacting-agents of the specified interaction
Returns and (with setf) changes the interaction-number of the specified interaction
Returns and (with setf) changes the experiment of the specified interaction
Determines which agents are part of the next interaction.
Gets the speaker, probably from an experiment
Gets the hearer, probably from an experiment
method called by run-interaction - has to be overloaded
runs a series of interactions
| run-batch | experiment number-of-interactions number-of-series &key &allow-other-keys | [Generic function] |
runs a batch (multiple series of interactions)
| run-batch-for-different-configurations | &key experiment-class number-of-interactions number-of-series monitors shared-configuration configurations (output-dir (error "Please supply an :output-dir for monitoring")) | [Function] |
Runs multiple batches of series. Every batch takes a different (named) configuration. Each configuration in configurations should be a pair like (name . configuration-list). You can use shared-configuration to set configuration values that are shared among all batches. Values in configurations have precedence over values in shared-configration, should there be a conflict. output-dir can be set to the directory of (or subdir in) your experiment. If it is set then all data-outputting monitors will be overridden to output there. For each named configuration a subdir will be made there with the given name.