[GRASS-user] Re: GRASS and ABM

[Michael Barton]

On Feb 15, 2008, at 6:38 AM, grass-user-request at lists.osgeo.org wrote:

> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 07:41:15 +0000
> From: Roy Sanderson <r.a.sanderson at newcastle.ac.uk>
> Subject: [GRASS-user] Re: grass-user Digest, Vol 22, Issue 35
> To: grass-user at lists.osgeo.org
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> Dear Michael
>
> That's great - I wasn't aware of these two sites which are both really
> helpful and I'll follow them through.  The issue on GRASS's
> scriptability is something of a double-edged sword in that it makes it
> much simpler to develop models in various languages and call them  
> inside
> the script, but then there often seems to be a performance hit in  
> terms
> of CPU or file IO.  The permutation testing that goes with the
> sensitivity analysis of many ABMs probably accentuates this issue.
> Perhaps linkage through the new GRASS Extension Manager might speed up
> processing a little, but I suspect it's more a case of revisiting some
> of my coding, to make it a little less clumsy!  Judging by the  
> number of
> pdfs on agent-based models on your site, I've a lot of reading to  
> catch
> up on.

It's a fast moving target.

>
> What's the relationship between the openabm list and the grass-abm one
> hosted at osgeo which I've just stumbled across?  The activity on the
> latter does, unfortunately, seem fairly low.

The grass-abm list at osgeo was started when we were in the planning  
stages for the NSF-funded workshop that launched OpenABM. OpenABM is  
generic to ABM related issues; grass-abm is specific to GRASS and  
ABM. I'd like to see more traffic on both.

Michael