Ps-i version 2.0 manual

About Ps-i 2.0.

Ps-i is a computer program that allows a researcher to simulate a system of agents and gather information about system's behaviour. The second version of ps-i was created from scratch during summer of 1999. This was done to alleviate extendability problems in the first version - which core was derived from a mockup program and was not designed to make changes simple.

The design of Ps-i had the following goals in mind:

To achieve these goals the following design decisions were made:

Ps-i 2.0 - model configuration file.

The model file consists of the following sections: It is generally recommended that a novice user takes an existing configuration file and use it as a template for constructing description of his/her model.