EcoLab is both the name of a software package and a research project
that is looking at the dynamics of evolution.
EcoLab the software package is now a fairly complete agent-based
simulation system, with the following features:
- The model is implemented as a C++ object. Support for more
advanced data structures and algorithms are available through C++'s
standard library.
- A scripting language TCL can access the model's methods and
instance variables, allowing experiments to be set up dynamically at
runtime
- The model can be run in GUI mode through the use of Tk and BLT
widgets. Various graphs and histogramming tools are available for
use.
- The same model can be run in batch mode by using a different script
- The model can be probed dynamically with the object
browser
- The model can be saved to a checkpoint file, or transferred
periodically over a socket connection to another copy of Ecolab
acting as a visualisation client.
- Various types of random number generators are available through
the UNURAN library or through the GNUSL.
- A form of SPMD parallel programming is provided through
ClassdescMP.
- EcoLab models may also use
Graphcode
library to implement a
distributed network of agents over an MPI-based cluster computer.
The official EcoLab code repository is hosted on
Github
SourceForge is used for:
- official production releases will be available through the
SourceForge file release system
- Email lists for announcements and member discussion
- Bug tracking
Please use reference 7 to cite EcoLab.
- Standish R.K. (2012) ``Complexity of
Networks (reprise)'', Complexity, 17, 50-61 arXiv:
0911.3482
- Standish R.K. (2010) ``Network Complexity of
Foodwebs", Proceedings Artificial Life XII,
Fellermann et al. (eds), (MIT Press: Cambridge, MA) 337-343. arXiv: 1008.3800
- Standish, R.K. and Madina, D. (2008)
``Classdesc and Graphcode: support for scientific
programming in C++'',
arXiv:cs.CE/0610120
- Standish, R.K. (2008) ``Going Stupid with
EcoLab'', Simulation, 84, 611-618. arXiv: cs.MA/0612014
- Standish, R.K. (2008) ``Open Source
Agent-based Modelling
Frameworks'', Studies in Computational Intelligence, 115,
409-437. ©Springer-Verlag.
- Standish, R.K. and Madina, D. (2003)
``ClassdescMP: Easy MPI programming in
C++''
in Computational Science, Sloot et al. (eds),
LNCS
2660, Springer, 896. arXiv:cs.DC/0401027
- Standish, R.K. and Leow, R. (2003) ``EcoLab:
Agent Based Modeling for C++
programmers'', in Proceedings SwarmFest 2003. arXiv:cs.MA/0401026
- Leow, R. and Standish, R.K. (2003) ``Running
C++ models under the Swarm
Environment'', in Proceedings SwarmFest 2003. arXiv:cs.MA/0401025
- Madina, D. and Standish, R.K. (2001)
``A system for reflection in
C++'', in Proceedings AUUG 2001:
Always on and Everywhere, 207. ISBN 0957753225
arXiv:cs.PL/0401024
- Standish, R.K. (2000) ``Ecolab
4'', in Applied
Complexity: From Neural Networks to Managed Landscapes Halloy, S.
and Williams, T. (eds), (New Zealand Institute for Crop and Food
Research, Christchurch), 156-163.
- Standish, R.K. (2004) ``Ecolab, Webworld and
self-organisation'', in
Artificial Life IX, Pollack, J. et al., (Cambridge, MA:
MIT Press), 358-363. arXiv:nlin.AO/0404011.
- Standish, R.K. (2002) ``Diversity
Evolution''
in Artificial Life VIII, Standish, RK, Bedau, MA and Abbass, HA
(eds) (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press), 131-137. arXiv:nlin.AO/0210026
- Standish, R.K. (2000) ``An Ecolab Perspective
on the Bedau Evolutionary
Statistics'', in Proceedings Artificial Life VII, Bedau, M.A. et al. (eds), (MIT
Press: Cambridge, Mass.), 238-242. arXiv:nlin.AO/0004026
- Standish, R.K. (2000) ``The Role of
Innovation within Economics'', in Commerce, Complexity and Evolution, Barnett, W. et al (eds)
(Cambridge University Press, New York), pp61-79.
arXiv:nlin.AO/0007005
- Standish, R.K. (1999) ``Statistics of Certain
Models of Evolution'', Phys. Rev.
E, 59 1545-1550. arXiv:physics/9806046
- Standish, R.K. (1998) ``Cellular Ecolab'', in Complex
Systems '98, Standish et. al. (eds) (Complexity Online) and and
Complexity International
, 6.
- Standish, R.K. (1996) ``Ecolab: Where to now?'' in Complex
Systems: From Local Interactions to Global Phenomena, R. Stocker,
H. Jelinek, B. Durnota and T. Bossomeier (IOS: Amsterdam) 1996,
p262-271. also
Complexity International
, 3.
- Standish, R.K. (1994) ``Population models with Random
Embryologies as a Paradigm for Evolution'', in Complex Systems:
Mechanism of Adaption, R.J. Stonier and X.H. Yu (eds), p45-51
(IOS:Amsterdam). also
Complexity International
, 2.
Russell Standish
2016-09-02