I spent all afternoon trying to work out with a part of my code and I don't seem to be getting anywhere. Basically, I'm trying to create a social network on model setup. Each person in the model starts off with a set of people that are nearby to them people-nearby. It is from this set that people choose who to connect with:
create-people population-size
[
set people-nearby turtle-set other people in-radius neighborhood-radius
]
to create-network
let num-links round (average-node-degree * population-size) / 2
while [ count links < num-links and count people with [length sort people-nearby > 0] > 0 ]
[ ask one-of people
[ *... initiate probabilistic link creation process...*
create-unlink-with chosen-friend
Once person A has connected to someone (ie. person B), person B is removed from person A's people-nearby set. I'm having trouble with this portion of the code where the people-nearby set is updated by excluding all nearby people that are members of the unlink-neighbors set (i.e., those to whom person A is already connected - this set including person B):
ifelse count turtle-set people-nearby > 1
[ let nearby-people-not-linked-to-me ( turtle-set people-nearby with [ not member? self [ turtle-set unlink-neighbors ] of myself ] )
set people-nearby nearby-people-not-linked-to-me ]
[ set people-nearby [ ] ]
For some reason this error keeps popping up:
"WITH expected input to be an agentset but got the list [(person 0) (person 1) (person 3) (person 4)] instead." whenever
people-nearby with [ not member? self [ turtle-set unlink-neighbors ] of myself is called.
I looked up so many posts but can't seem to get the form of the argument right so that it stops showing this error.
Can anyone help me fix this please? (Oh and it's my first post so apologies if I haven't set up the issue properly)
When you submit code, try to submit what is needed to recreate your problem- check out the asking help page, and specifically the section on helping others reproduce your problem. As is, I think your problem comes from using turtle-set. That primitive is mostly used to combine agentsets, not to query them. So in your line:
( turtle-set people-nearby with [ not member? self [ turtle-set unlink-neighbors ] of myself ] )
there is an syntax issue related to turtle-set. The error itself is saying that you have not returned an agentset but a list of agents, which behave differently.
If I understand correctly, you want all people to have a variable that contains all people within a radius of themselves: "people-nearby". Then, you want the people to form a link with one of their "neighbor" turtles. Finally, you want the people to update their "people-nearby" variable to exclude the person to whom they just formed a link. Below is some code with comments where I tried to follow those steps- obviously your variables will be different, but it may get you started. Let me know if I need to clarify anything or if I missed a step.
breed [ people person ]
turtles-own [ people-nearby ]
to setup
ca
reset-ticks
create-people 70 [
setxy (random 30 - 15) (random 30 - 15)
]
; do this after all turtles have spawned
ask people [
set people-nearby other people in-radius 3
]
end
to create-links
let num-links 10
;; Create a temporary agentset out of turtles that have people nearby
let turtles-with-neighbors turtles with [ any? people-nearby ]
; ask some number of the temporary agentset:
ask n-of num-links turtles-with-neighbors [
;; This just makes it easy to identify the turtle that causes the link
ask patches in-radius 3 [
set pcolor white
]
; create a link to one of the nearby people
create-link-to one-of people-nearby
; newly set people-nearby to only include turtles in radius
; that are not linked-to from the currently acting turtle
set people-nearby other people in-radius 3 with [ not member? self [ out-link-neighbors ] of myself ]
ask people-nearby [ set size 0.5 ]
]
end
Related
Whenever we use the "ask" command for all agents of a particular kind or breed, the Netlogo program goes through each agent one by one in random order. What I want is really simple: I would like to access the turtle whose turn it is at that moment.
I can't seem to find an appropriate command for this.
My code for reference purposes is as follows:
to surfer-visits-source
ask surfers [
if ([quality] of one-of [out-link-st-neighbors] of one-of out-link-ss-neighbors) < expected-quality
[
let temp ([who] of out-link-ss-neighbors)
create-link-ss-to one-of sources with [who != temp]
ask links-ss with [end1 = [who] of surfer][
ask links-ss with [[who] of turtle temp] [
die
]
]
]
]
We can use the self command to do this.
I am a beginner with NetLogo and I am trying to ask some turtles (students from different social classes) to link to other turtles (schools). What I would like is for the working class students to look for the school with the highest achievement which is at the same not expensive and has not reached the max number of links allowed. If the desired school has reached the max number of links allowed I want the student to look for the next school with the highest achievement which has not reached the max number of links allowed and so on.
This is the code. I get the following message "ANY? expected input to be an agentset but got the turtle (school 1) instead."
breed [schools school]
breed [upperclass upperclass-student]
breed [workingclass workingclass-student]
upperclass-own [achievement enrolled? target]
workingclass-own [achievement enrolled? target]
schools-own [schoolachievement expensive? ]
to setup
clear-all
set-default-shape schools "house"
set-default-shape upperclass "person"
set-default-shape workingclass "person"
ask patches [ set pcolor 8 ]
create-schools num-of-schools [ setxy random-xcor random-ycor set schoolachievement random-normal 5 1
set expensive? one-of [ true false ] ]
create-upperclass num-of-upperclass [ set color white setxy random-xcor random-ycor set achievement
random-normal 5 1 ] ;Students from upper class have higher achievement
create-workingclass num-of-workingclass [ set color red setxy random-xcor random-ycor set achievement
random-normal 4 1 ]
end
to go
ask workingclass [
choose-school ]
end
to choose-school
if breed = workingclass [
set target one-of schools with-max [ schoolachievement ] with [ expensive? = false ] ]
if any? target with [ count link-neighbors < max-link-count ] [
create-link-with target ]
set enrolled? TRUE
end
Your problem is the difference between an agent and an agentset, which is a somewhat subtle problem. The with-max returns an agentset - a set of agents (in this case turtles). That agentset can have 0 members, 1 member, 2+ members but is a set even if it is empty. However, the one-of selects one agent from the agentset and returns it as an agent, not an agentset. That is, NetLogo knows anything that is returned by one-of must be exactly one agent. At this point, primitives that are for agentsets (like any?) will throw an error unless they can also be used on individual agents.
So, back to your code. I like the readability of checking whether there are viable schools and then selecting one, which is what I think you meant to do. That would be:
to choose-school
if breed = workingclass
[ set targets schools with-max [ schoolachievement ] with [ expensive? = false ]
set candidates targets with [ count link-neighbors < max-link-count ]
if any? candidates
[ create-link-with one-of candidates
set enrolled? TRUE
]
]
end
Note that I also changed to targets instead of target, which is one way to keep track of whether something is an agent or an agentset.
The other way you could do this and keep it as an agent is:
to choose-school
if breed = workingclass [
set target one-of schools with-max [ schoolachievement ] with [ expensive? = false ] ]
if target != nobody and [count link-neighbors] of target < max-link-count [
create-link-with target ]
set enrolled? TRUE
end
So you can use nobody instead of any? but you can't also use with in that line because the with is really a filter on a set.
I also think you have a bracketing issue - I assume you want set enrolled? TRUE inside the brackets. I left it in the second fix, but changed in the first error (as well as changing bracket position convention to make the code block structure more visible)
I have a network of nodes and links. This figure
is a capture of the world. The graph represents streets of a city. I have imported a shapefile with the gis extension. The gray lines are links, black dots are nodes and red dots represent people. The people move heading to the next node. In a street corner, the red dot chooses next street by examining the variable popularity owned by the link.
The links breed has a variable, popularity, whose value I would like to copy in the patches that are below.
If I try, for example, something like this to access patches under links will produce an error
ask links [show [(list pxcor pycor)] of patch-here]
Another approach can be to access links variable popularity from patches, but I do not know how to do it.
The reason why I want this is because I want to write in a file a matrix of popularity values and its position in the matrix should correspond with the position of the link in the world. Thus, the patches below the links would give me the matrix form. I have a procedure that for each patch writes the value of the patch in a file. However, I do not know how to pass the popularityvalue from the link to the patch below it.
Is there any way to copy a link owned variable to its patch?
Regards
If someone has a better way of doing this (or can simplify my code), feel free. Here is a complete working example. Copy it into an empty NetLogo model and run it to see it work.
The setup procedure just creates some nodes and links with appropriate test values and then calls the transfer-link-values procedure, which does what I think you want. The setup procedure then puts the values into the patch labels to display them and see the results.
The way the transfer-link-values procedure works is to create a turtle at one end of the link, and that turtle moves toward the other end of the link transferring the value as it goes. When it gets to the other end, the turtle dies.
patches-own [patch-popularity]
links-own [link-popularity]
to setup
clear-all
create-turtles 10 [ setxy random-xcor random-ycor]
while [ any? turtles with [not any? my-links] ]
[ let to-pair turtles with [not any? my-links]
let thisNode one-of to-pair
ask thisNode
[ create-link-with one-of other to-pair
[ set link-popularity 5 + random 5 ]
]
]
transfer-link-values
ask patches [ if patch-popularity != 0 [set plabel patch-popularity ] ]
end
to transfer-link-values
ask links
[ let start-node one-of both-ends
let this-link self
let end-node nobody
ask start-node [ set end-node [other-end] of this-link ]
let transfer-value link-popularity
ask start-node
[ hatch 1
[ face end-node
if transfer-value > patch-popularity
[ ask patch-here [ set patch-popularity transfer-value ] ]
while [ not member? end-node turtles-here ]
[ forward 1
if transfer-value > patch-popularity
[ ask patch-here [ set patch-popularity transfer-value ] ]
]
if transfer-value > patch-popularity
[ ask patch-here [ set patch-popularity transfer-value ] ]
die
]
]
]
end
I'm new to NetLogo and am attempting to model home range selection of subsequent colonizers. The model should follow simple steps:
Individual 1 picks a home range (a subset of patches).
When individual 1 is done picking its home range, it hatches new
individual 2.
Individual 2 picks a home range, then hatches individual 3.
Individual 3 picks a home range, and so on.
I'm having trouble figuring out how to get this to work. I can get the first turtle to pick a home range. But the offspring do not. Writing the code numerous ways has only accomplished two unintended outcomes. Either endless new individuals are hatched simultaneously, before the first turtle has a home range, and the new turtles fail to pick a home range. Or, the first turtle picks its home range and hatches a new turtle, but that new turtle doesn't pick a home range. Neither outcome is what I want.
How do I set this up to run as intended, so that hatchlings pick home ranges too? Here is one simplified version of my code:
to setup-turtles
crt 1
[setxy random-xcor random-ycor]
end
to go
ask turtles [pick-homerange]
tick
end
to pick-homerange
while [food-mine < food-required] ;; if not enough food, keep picking patches for home range
[;; code to pick home range until it has enough food; this is working okay
]
[;; when enough food, stop picking home range
hatch 1 fd 20 ;; now hatch 1, move new turtle slightly away
]
end
So it is at this last part, once the home range is built, that I want a new turtle to hatch from its parent. I then want that turtle to repeat the pick-homerange procedure. How could that be coded to happen? I've tried writing this every way I can think of; nothing is working. Thanks in advance for any assistance!
One way to do this is to have each patch equal one "food value", and have turtles grow their home range until their home range supplies them with enough food. I would set this up so that patches "know" to which turtle they belong, and so that turtles know how much food they need, which patches are part of their home range, and the food supplied by their homerange. Example patch and turtle variables would then be:
patches-own [
owned_by
]
turtles-own [
food_required
my_homerange
homerange_food
]
Then, your turtles can add patches into their home range until they hit their "food_required", whatever you set that as. For simplicity, in this example I assume that turtles are territorial and so won't "share" home ranges. Further explanation of steps is commented in the code below. This is intended just to get you started- for example, it will hang if you run pick-homerange too many times.
to setup-turtles
crt 1 [
set size 1.5
setxy random-xcor random-ycor
set food_required 5 + random 5
set homerange_food 0
set my_homerange []
]
end
to pick-homerange
ask turtles [
;; Check if the current patch is owned by anyone other than myself
if ( [owned_by] of patch-here != self ) and ( [owned_by] of patch-here != nobody ) [
;; if it is owned by someone else, move to a new patch that is not owned
let target one-of patches in-radius 10 with [ owned_by = nobody ]
if target != nobody [
move-to target
]
]
;; Now add the current patch into my homerange
ask patch-here [
set owned_by myself
]
set my_homerange patches with [ owned_by = myself ]
;; calculate the number of patches currently in my homerange
set homerange_food count patches with [owned_by = myself]
;; Now grow the homerange until there are enough patches in the homerange
;; to fulfill the "food_required" variable
while [ homerange_food < food_required ] [
let expander one-of my_homerange with [ any? neighbors with [ owned_by = nobody ] ]
if expander != nobody [
ask expander [
let expand_to one-of neighbors4 with [ owned_by = nobody ]
if expand_to != nobody[
ask expand_to [
set owned_by [owned_by] of myself
]
]
]
]
;; Reassess homerange food worth
set my_homerange patches with [ owned_by = myself ]
set homerange_food count patches with [owned_by = myself]
]
ask my_homerange [
set pcolor [color] of myself - 2
]
;; Now that my homerange has been defined, I will hatch a new turtle
hatch 1 [
set color ([color] of myself + random 4 - 2)
]
]
end
I've been trying to link turtles from BREED1 (still) to turtles from breed2 (mobile) who are on neighbors of BREED1. I want to do so in order to change a variable according the link-length between BREED1 and breed2.
(you can say that BREED1 represent houses and breed2 represents people, I would like to change the fact that the people are "protected" or not, according to the distance that separates them from their house (BREED1 that they are linked to))
I don't know if this is the best way to do it, but here's my code, I know it's not working because the "protected" variable is always false by default.
to protect
ask n-of total-number-BREED1 BREED1
[ if any? breed2-on neighbors
[ create-link-with [who] of breed2-on neighbors]
ask link-neighbors
[ set protected true]
]
I would also like to add a part concerning the link's length
ask link-neighbors
[ ifelse link-length < 2
[set protected true]
[set protected false]]
Thank you for your help !
Try this to create links with the breed2-on the neighboring patches:
ask BREED1
[
if any? breed2-on neighbors [ create-links-with breed2-on neighbors]
ask link-neighbors [ set protected true]
]
and this, which gets the link-length between the breed1 and it's neighbors
ask BREED1
[
ask link-neighbors
[
if [link-length] of link-with myself < 2 [ do something]
]
]
Note: link-length is called from a link's perspective, so you need to get the link that's connecting two things.