Leader Selection Form Swarm of Agents NetLogo - netlogo

I want to implement a scenario that all agents in NetLogo simulation should report the number of agent in their neighbour upto 3 patches in radius. And then top 3 of them having largest number of agents in its radius should 'set is-leader? true ' . As i am using ' turtles-own [ is-leader? ] ' .
to setup
ca
ask n-of 30 patches [sprout 1 [
set size .8
]
]
end
to go
fd 0.5
lt random 20
choose-leader
end
to choose-leader
end

try like this:
turtles have variable "is-leader?" set to false.
turtles at each tick move in the random way you decided, then set their "is-leader?" variable to false
the procedure choose-leader is executed. It chooses the 3 turtles with the higher number of neighbors in radius 3 and set their "is-leader?" to true.
code:
turtles-own[
is-leader?
]
to setup
ca
ask n-of 30 patches [sprout 1 [set size .8 set is-leader? false]]
end
to go
ask turtles[
fd 0.5
lt random 20
set is-leader? false
]
choose-leader
end
to choose-leader
ask max-n-of 3 turtles [count turtles in-radius 3] [set is-leader? true]
end

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Why won't my breed walk?

I am building a model population within a bioreactor, building on a basic tutorial telling how to eat, reproduce, and die, etc. While tinkering, my turtles stopped walking. I suspect it has to do with how to ask the different breeds to do things?
Edit: For some reason my contaminants aren't "wheels" either
turtles-own [ energy ]
patches-own [ nutrition ]
breed [ Xanthomonas Xanthomona ]
breed [ contaminants contaminant ]
globals
[ xanthan biomass ]
to setup
clear-all
setup-patches
set-default-shape Xanthomonas "bug"
set-default-shape contaminants "wheel"
crt num-Xanthomonas
[set color yellow
set energy 10
setxy random-xcor random-ycor
]
foul
determine-biomass
reset-ticks
;; begins defining a procedure named "setup"
;; resets the world to an initial, empty state
;; creates 100 turtles, they start out standing at the origin 0,0
;; set default shape so I don't have to tell it every time
;; A turtle's color variable is random until specified
;; setxy command with next two numbers as inputs
;; chooses random reporters for allowable x and y coordinates
End
to setup-patches
ask patches
[ set pcolor green
set nutrition 50
]
;; every patch starts with 50 nutrition, the color indicates it for us
end
to foul
set-default-shape contaminants "wheel"
if Contamination?
[ crt num-contaminants
[ set color red
setxy random-xcor random-ycor
]
compete ]
end
to go
if ticks >= 2000 [ stop ]
if count turtles > 2000 [stop]
if count turtles = 0 [stop]
feed
move-turtles
ask turtles
[eat-glucose]
ask Xanthomonas
[reproduce]
check-death
tick
end
to determine-biomass
ifelse Contamination?
[set biomass num-Xanthomonas + num-contaminants
]
[set biomass num-Xanthomonas ]
end
to move-turtles
;; says that each turtle should run the commands in the brackets
;; random doesn't include the number you give it as a possible result
;; uses a reporter, each turtle picks a random whole number between 0 and 359
;; makes the turtle move forward one step
;;specify what you're defining will lose 1 energy per step
ask Xanthomonas
[ right random 360
forward 1
set energy energy - 1 ]
end
to Feed
if Continuous-feed?
[ ask patches
[if random 100 < 3
[set pcolor green
set nutrition nutrition + 50
] ] ]
end
to eat-glucose
ask Xanthomonas
[ if pcolor = green
[ set energy energy + 10
set nutrition nutrition - 50
set pcolor gray
set biomass biomass + 1
] ]
ifelse show-energy?
[ set label energy ]
[ set label "" ]
;;ask turtles before "if"
;;if when true, and only then will the turtle run the commands inside the brackets (otherwise it skips them)
;;true/false questions, if true, will do first set of brackets
;;false means turtle runs commands in second set of bracket
;;energy (elements) will default to zero
end
to reproduce
ask Xanthomonas
[ if energy > 50
[set energy energy - 50
set xanthan xanthan + 1
hatch-Xanthomonas 1
[set biomass biomass + 1
rt random-float 360 fd 1
] ] ]
end
to check-death
ask Xanthomonas
[ if energy < 0
[ die ]
]
end
to reinoculate
ask patches [
if random 100 < 10
[ set pcolor green
]
]
end
to Contaminate
crt num-contaminants
[ set color red
setxy random-xcor random-ycor
]
end
to compete
ask contaminants
[ if energy > 50
[set energy energy - 50
set xanthan xanthan + 1
hatch-contaminants 1
[ set color red
set biomass biomass + 1
rt random-float 360 fd 1
] ] ]
end
okay, your basic problem is the crt command. This is short for create-turtles. You have two breeds here and you have defined them. However, when you create the turtles, you are not telling NetLogo which breed to create.
What this means is that you need to make a couple of minor changes to specify the breed. If you look in the dictionary, you will see the command is create-<breed>. Where you have crt num-Xanthomonas, change it to create-Xanthomonas num-Xanthomonas and similarly where you create the contaminants.

Netlogo: simulation of cellular differentiation pattern?

I am trying to simulate the differentiation pattern of a simple organism. This is how I'd like my breeds and variables to work:
Breeds: vegetatives and heterocysts. Vegetatives can divide, heterocysts can't. Vegetatives can become heterocysts. Ideally, once a heterocyst is formed, the closer a vegetative is to it, the less likely it is for it to become a heterocyst in turn.
Variables:
age: + 1 per tick, - 1 for newly-hatched turtles
bump: A means by which to displace all the turtles located 'ahead' of a newly-hatched turtle, so they don't overlap. I imagined the system a bit like a Newton's Cradle (http://s.hswstatic.com/gif/newtons-cradle-1.jpg)
pro: promoter. Accumulates partially randomly. Once it reaches a certain value ('concentration'), a vegetative would change breed to become a heterocyst. Value decreased by inh.
proL: label for pro, with rounded values.
inh: inhibitor. Ideally this value should form a 'gradient' (highest in turtles near heterocysts, lowest further away).
The obvious problem that I can see is that I get a lot of contiguous heterocysts. Which is sort of what I've been trying to avoid. But I can't see what went wrong...Please help?
to setup
clear-all
setup-turtles
reset-ticks
ask turtles [ set size 1 ]
end
to setup-turtles
create-vegetatives 1
ask turtles [
setxy random-xcor random-ycor
set shape "circle"
set color 65]
end
to go
divide
add-age
move
differentiate
tick
end
turtles-own [age
bump
inh
pro
proL]
breed [vegetatives vegetative]
breed [heterocysts heterocyst]
to add-age
ask turtles [
set age age + 1
ifelse show-age?
[ set label age ]
[ set label "" ]
]
end
to divide
ask vegetatives [
if random 100 < 2 [
hatch 1[
set bump 1
set age age - 1
set inh 0
]
]]
end
;;Trying to get only one turtle per patch, making the others move
to move
ask turtles[
while [bump = 1] [
ifelse not any? turtles-on patch-right-and-ahead 180 1[
rt 180
fd 1
set bump 0
if any? other turtles-here[
ask other turtles-here
[set bump 1]
]
]
[fd 1
set bump 0
if any? other turtles-here[
ask other turtles-here[
set bump 1]
]
]
]]
end
to differentiate
ask turtles[
set pro (pro - inh + (random 2))
set proL round pro
ifelse show-proL?
[ set label proL ]
[ set label "" ]
create-links-with other turtles-on patch-ahead 1
create-links-with other turtles-on patch-right-and-ahead 180 1
if breed = vegetatives [
if any? link-neighbors[
ifelse any? link-neighbors with [breed = heterocysts]
[]
[set inh mean [inh] of link-neighbors]
]
if any? vegetatives with [pro > 50]
[ask vegetatives with [pro > 50]
[set breed heterocysts
set color brown
set shape "circle"
if any? link-neighbors[
ask link-neighbors with [breed != heterocysts]
[set inh 2]]
]]
]]
clear-links
end

You can't use Migrate in a turtle context, because migrate is observer-only

I managed to build my small model, but i do get an error, but don't know why?
Ps: i'm a bloody beginner
The Error code is:
You can't use migrate in a turtle context, because migarte ia observer-only.
So what can I do?
Thank you for your answers.
breed [fish a-fish]
breed [boats boat]
boats-own [profit]
to setup
clear-all
ask patches [set pcolor blue]
set-default-shape fish "fish"
create-fish initial-number-fish
[
set color grey
set size 1.0
setxy random-xcor random-ycor
]
set-default-shape boats "boat"
create-boats initial-number-boats
[
set color black
set size 1.5
set profit random (1 * profit-per-fish)
setxy random-xcor random-ycor
]
reset-ticks
end
to go
if not any? turtles [stop]
ask fish
[
move
fish-reproduce
]
ask boats
[
move-boats
catch-fish
death
reproduce-boats
migrate
]
tick
end
to move
rt random 50
lt random 50
fd 1
end
to fish-reproduce
if random-float 100 < fish-growth
[hatch 1 [rt random-float 360 fd 1]]
end
to move-boats
rt random 50
lt random 50
fd 1
set profit profit - 0.1
end
to catch-fish
let prey one-of fish-here
if prey != nobody
[ask prey [die]
set profit profit + profit-per-fish]
end
to death
if profit < 0 [die]
end
to reproduce-boats
if profit > 1
[
set profit (profit / 2)
hatch 1 [rt random-float 360 fd 1]]
end
to migrate
if random-float 100 < random-spawn-rate
[create-turtles 2 [rt random-float 360 fd 1]]
end
There are 3 different primitives for creating new turtles in NetLogo:
create (observer), hatch (turtle) and sprout (patch).
Each one works only in a specific context.
This means you have to be aware of the context in which you are calling your procedure.
In your example, you are calling the create-turtles primitive inside of an ask turtles (specifically ask boats) context. Which means you are in a turtle context and not in an observer context and therefore create-turtles is not allowed to use.
To solve your problem, you just have to replace create-turtles by hatch (or hatch-<breed>, like hatch-fish if you want to spawn new agents in a specific breed).

NetLogo: Moving percent of turtles

I created 1000 turtles in NetLogo which move randomly, but I want only thirty percent of them to move forward one step and the other seventy percent to move forward five steps.
to setup
ca
setup-turtles
setup-patches
reset-ticks
end
to go
move-turtles
tick
end
to setup-patches
ask patches [set pcolor brown]
end
to setup-turtles
create-turtles number
ask turtles [set shape "person" set size 1]
ask turtles [setxy random-xcor random-ycor] ;; posicionar las personas en un punto al azar
end
to move-turtles
ask turtles [
right random 360]
end
One simple and fast way to approach this would be to do it probabilistically:
ask turtles [ fd ifelse-value (random 100 <= 30) [ 1 ] [ 5 ] ]
...so that each turtle would move one step with a probability of 30% and five steps with a probability of 70%. But it wouldn't guarantee that exactly 30% of your turtles move one step. It would just average to 30% in the long run.
If you want exact numbers, one way to do it would be:
let small-movers n-of (count turtles * 0.3) turtles
let big-movers turtles with [ not member? self small-movers ]
ask small-movers [ fd 1 ]
ask big-movers [ fd 5 ]
But this will be slowish because of the member? check.
A much faster way would be to use a turtle variable. Assuming you have:
turtles-own [ step-size ]
Then you can do:
ask turtles [ set step-size 5 ]
ask n-of (count turtles * 0.3) turtles [ set step-size 1 ]
ask turtles [ fd step-size ]

How show few turtles at a time?

I have this basic code for setup and moving turtle.
By this time I want only few turtles to appear during setup and then when they move. Other turtles will show or will become visible.
to setup
crt 100
setxy random 19 random 80
end
to go
fd 1
end
I tried this. But I got error
to setup
clear-all
create-turtles random 10
reset-ticks
end
to go
fd 1
if count turtles < 100 [
create-turtles min list (random 10) (100 - count turtles)
]
tick
end
Your question is not that clear, if you want to be able to set visibility of turtles you should use hidden? Primitive to set visibility of turtles,
Following example shows how turtles appear when their who id is smaller than ticks, in tick 101 all turtles will be visible.
to setup
clear-all
reset-ticks
crt 100 [
set hidden? true
setxy random 19 random 80
]
end
to go
ask turtles
[
if who < ticks
[
set hidden? false
fd 1
]
]
ask patch 0 0 [set plabel ticks] ; just for your info
ask patch 1 1 [set plabel "Ticks"] ; just for your info
tick
end
After 1 tick only one turtle is visible:
And now 40 turtles are visible :
Update:
In this example, you can have a list of numbers that you want to ask turtles to set their visibility to true:
globals [ number-to-set-visible]
to setup
clear-all
reset-ticks
set number-to-set-visible [ 5 5 7 8 2 ]
crt 100 [
set hidden? true
setxy random 19 random 80
]
end
to go
if visibility-condition and length number-to-set-visible > 0
[
ask n-of item 0 number-to-set-visible turtles [
set hidden? false
]
set number-to-set-visible remove-item 0 number-to-set-visible
]
ask turtles with [not hidden? ]
[
fd 1
]
tick
end
to-report visibility-condition
report ticks mod 100 = 0 and ticks > 0
end
Marzy's answer covers how to create invisible turtles during setup, then gradually make them visible during go.
It's not clear to me if you actually need this visible/invisible distinction. Do you actually need all the turtles to exist from the beginning? Might it be OK to just create a few more turtles each tick? If so, try code like this:
to setup
clear-all
create-turtles random 10
reset-ticks
end
to go
if count turtles < 100 [
create-turtles min list (random 10) (100 - count turtles)
]
tick
end