<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Chris,<div><br></div><div>It was partly due to my research projects that this list got started. But it's been very low traffic so far. I'm hoping to encourage more people to think about and work to create better links between ABM and GIS. </div><div><br></div><div>My team is creating a modeling laboratory for agropastoral landuse and landscape dynamics, linking DEVS-based ABM (it is in Java) and GRASS. We have prototype version running now and hope to have a more finished product by June. Our focus is on the Mediterranean, but our laboratory can be adapted for other areas. You can take a look at our web site at <<a href="http://medland.asu.edu">http://medland.asu.edu</a>>. </div><div><br></div><div>The GRASS side of the modeling laboratory is already posted in the GRASS Addons SVN under Landyn. We just uploaded a new version that uses the new r.watershed module as well as r.terraflow. This version is scripted in BASH, but we are nearing completion of a new version in Python. I've copied some of the grad students working on this project.</div><div><br></div><div>Bill Griffin, one of my colleagues here in the Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity <<a href="http://csdc.asu.edu">http://csdc.asu.edu</a>>, writes ABMs in Python. He's not an archaeologist, but I don't hold that against him ;-). If you are interested, I can put you in touch.</div><div><br></div><div>Archaeologist Mark Altaweel, a member of the RePast dev team, is working on a GRASS plugin for RePast. I've copied him here in case you'd like to get in touch. </div><div><br></div><div>I've also been in touch with the developer of the NetLogo GIS extension about the possibility of links with GRASS. He thought they might be quite doable. Unfortunately, he finished his PhD and was moving on to another university. </div><div><br></div><div>So there is a lot of potential for ABM-GRASS integration, but the field remains wide open. Welcome.</div><div><br></div><div>Michael Barton</div><div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div><div><div>______________________________</div><div>C. Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology</div><div>Director of Graduate Studies</div><div>School of Human Evolution & Social Change</div><div>Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity</div><div>Arizona State University</div><div>Tempe, AZ 85287-2402</div><div>USA</div><div><br></div><div>voice: 480-965-6262; fax: 480-965-7671</div><div>www: <a href="http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton">http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></div></span></div></span> </div><br><div><div>On Feb 10, 2009, at 10:45 PM, chris carleton wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">Hi All,<br><br>I just joined this list and wish that I knew about it earlier. I'm a grad student in archaeology and my research involves GIS, ABM, and analytical mathematical models. I have, for a while now, been considering trying to create ABMs that use a GIS - like GRASS - in order to simulate environments for agents. Is there anything anyone can suggest in the way of reading or other media that will help to get me started on the specifics dealing with integrating GRASS and ABMs? Is anyone on this list making use of Python and C instead of a Java based language for their simulations? I would prefer to use C or Python, which is why I'm asking. The kind of modeling I want to do would require that the simulation be able to access raster maps and affect changes to those maps as part of the output for analysis. Any help or general advice is greatly appreciated - this message, I suppose, is as much an introduction for myself as anything else so.... "Hello GRASS-ABM World".<br><br>Chris<br><br><hr>So many new options, so little time.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/products/messenger.aspx" target="_new">Windows Live Messenger.</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>_______________________________________________<br>grass-abm mailing list<br><a href="mailto:grass-abm@lists.osgeo.org">grass-abm@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-abm">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-abm</a><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>