On simulation of the 2D P colony with evolving environment

Abstract

To obtain more results in the field of formal models of multi-agent systems it is necessary to step outside of the research done on the paper and move forward to computer simulation. The simulation opens the possibilities to study the behavior of studied model in real-time, or verify designed configurations. To develop suitable application of a good quality and fulfilling all the needs, it is necessary to base the development on detailed analysis. In this paper, we present a development of a simulator of a 2D P colony with the evolving environment. The simulator replaces the previous version of the software we used to simulate the behavior of the 2D P colony with evolving environment. In the previous version, the configuration of the colony was hardcoded into the source code of the simulator; hence, any changes had to be done by developing a new version of the simulator. Recent version is modular and the definition of the simulated colony is held in the separate configuration file. The result of the development is an application in the Python programming language with desired features defined in the analysis of the application. The application was developed under the Open Source license; hence, it is freely accessible and can be used or modified by anyone.