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A quick tutorial to getting OPTIMAES working and doing something interesting with it.

Step 1




Make sure you have Python installed on your machine. If you don't, I'm afraid this will take a bit longer than 5 minutes as you need to download and get Python running first.

More at http://www.python.org/

Step 2




Download the code in an archive file from : GetTheCode

Open it

Step 3




Set an environment variable called OPTIMAES_ROOT to the optimaes directory containing defaultExperiment.py.

Something like

export OPTIMAES_ROOT=/home/yourname/optimaes/

should get you going on Linux.

Step 4




Open defaultExperiment.py. Check that the path in the first line, which by default is

#! /usr/bin/python

correctly points to Python.

To find the right path in your Linux system, type

which python

on the command line. If it isn't "#! /usr/bin/python", change the file to the right path

Step 5




Run defaultExperiment.py

You should see something like this ...

Parameters
Economy of 30 agents of type Agent
In a Local network (av. 5 arcs per node)
This economy was run 50 times, each time for 10 steps

Summaries
Mean no. agents alive : 6.285714
Average of surplus generated by the economy : 284.204082
Average of total production of the economy during it's run : 448.897959
Mean of standard deviation of wealth : 7.578408 from a mean of 11.233888
(Smaller sDev the more equal the society)



Parameters
Economy of 30 agents of type GiftAgent
In a Local network (av. 5 arcs per node)
This economy was run 50 times, each time for 10 steps

Summaries
Mean no. agents alive : 10.200000
Average of surplus generated by the economy : 352.020000
Average of total production of the economy during it's run : 671.220000
Mean of standard deviation of wealth : 6.254166 from a mean of 8.661083
(Smaller sDev the more equal the society)



Parameters
Economy of 30 agents of type BarterAgent
In a Local network (av. 5 arcs per node)
This economy was run 50 times, each time for 10 steps

Summaries
Mean no. agents alive : 6.306122
Average of surplus generated by the economy : 279.204082
Average of total production of the economy during it's run : 448.387755
Mean of standard deviation of wealth : 7.451643 from a mean of 11.044010
(Smaller sDev the more equal the society)



Parameters
Economy of 30 agents of type ProfitSeekingBarterAgent
In a Local network (av. 5 arcs per node)
This economy was run 50 times, each time for 10 steps

Summaries
Mean no. agents alive : 6.260000
Average of surplus generated by the economy : 287.320000
Average of total production of the economy during it's run : 461.120000
Mean of standard deviation of wealth : 7.539095 from a mean of 11.500528
(Smaller sDev the more equal the society)



Parameters
Economy of 30 agents of type MoneyAgent
In a Local network (av. 5 arcs per node)
This economy was run 50 times, each time for 10 steps

Summaries
Mean no. agents alive : 6.100000
Average of surplus generated by the economy : 254.280000
Average of total production of the economy during it's run : 422.880000
Mean of standard deviation of wealth : 7.103391 from a mean of 10.382554
(Smaller sDev the more equal the society)



These are the results of running (briefly) the five different kinds of economy that currently exist in the OPTIMAES package.

* SelfishForagers
* GiftAgents
* BarterAgents
* ProfitSeekingBarterAgents
* MoneyAgent

Step 6




Now look at the table of results in DefaultExperimentResults

Choose some parameters that seem interesting but haven't been tried yet.

Edit defaultExperiment.py to use them.

Run defaultExperiment.py again ...

Step 7




Add the results you got to those on DefaultExperimentResults

Congratulations




You've just contributed something original to the sum of human knowledge ...

If it didn't work



I know it's ugly. I'm working on some better instructions etc. But if this didn't work for you ...

* You can ReportBugs

* Or tell me your problems here ...




No problem at all technically. The question is how to interpret the results. For example, how can you tell whether a difference between any pair of values is statistically significant? (I assume a random number generator is used in the simulation so some differences will occur randomly.) -- SJ
: See ScientificCriticism



Also not a problem, instead a suggestion (which, of course, you are free to ignore). Modifying the sample python script to have use "#!/usr/bin/env python" instead of "#!/usr/bin/python". That would allow it to run unmodified on systems with a python in a different place (but in $PATH). Also sys.path could be modified in the script to automatically add the library subdirectories (that will only work when the script is run from within its own directory - but that should be the case for a first user trial run).

-- sholden

: I've made some changes to improve this in the new version -- PhilJones





*Python rulez*
: of course -- PhilJones

Software error:

Can't locate object method "startform" via package "CGI" at optimaes.cgi line 1479.

For help, please send mail to the webmaster ([no address given]), giving this error message and the time and date of the error.