NetLogo Models for AI

• Agent Animation
• ANZ Continental Drift
• Being Kevin Bacon
• Cars Guessing Game
• Central Park Events
• Chatbot
• Chevening House Maze
• Chevening House Maze with Coloured Islands
• Chevening House Maze with Wall Following
• Colour Cylinder
• Communication T-T Example 2
• Crowd Path Following
• Empty Maze
• Empty Maze with Wall Following
• Entropy Calculator
• Firebreak
• Flocking with Obstacles
• Follow Trail
• Follow and Avoid
• Foxes and Rabbits
• Foxes and Rabbits 2
• Hampton Court Maze
• Hampton Court Maze with Turtle
• Hampton Court Maze with Wall Following
• Hill Climbing Example 2
• Hill Climbing with Wall Following
• Knowledge Representation
• Language Modelling
• Life Cycle Stages
• Life Example
• Line of Sight Example 2
• Load File
• Look Ahead Example 2
• Manhattan Distance
• Map and Image Annotator
• Map Drawing
• Mazes
• Mazes-2
• Missionaries and Cannibals
• N Dimensional Space
• Nested Squares
• Nested Triangles
• NZ Birds
• Obstacle Avoidance 1
• Obstacle Avoidance 2
• Santa Fe Trail
• Searching for Kevin Bacon
• Searching for Kevin Bacon 2
• Searching Mazes
• Shannon Guessing Game
• Shuffle Cards
• Shuffle and Deal Cards
• Simple Walk
• State Machine Example 2
• Stick Figure Animation
• Stick Figure Walking
• Sudoku Builder
• Two States
• Vacuum Cleaner Robot
• Vision Cone Example 2
• Wall Following Events
• Wall Following Example 2
• Water Flowing Uphill

Life Cycle Stages NetLogo Model

Produced for the book series "Artificial Intelligence";

Author: W. J. Teahan; Publisher: Ventus Publishing Aps.

powered by NetLogo

view/download model file: Life-Cycle-Stages.nlogo

WHAT IS IT?

This model shows an example of finite state automata (FSA) that represents the life cycle stages of people throughout their lives. The model is based a model proposed by on D Jobber (1998) in "Principles and Practice of Marketing", McGraw-Hill. The FSA is drawn rotated 90 degrees to the way Jobber draws it. This is simply because it is easier to fit the middle line of states vertically rather than horizontally within the NetLogo environment.

The model illustrates that life is not a linear progression - there are cycles that people go through.

THE INTERFACE

The Interface buttons are defined as follows:

- setup: This sets up the FSA.
- go-once: This executes one tick of the simulation.
- go: This makes the simulation runs continuously.

The Interface sliders and switches are defined as follows:

- births-each-tick slider: This is the number of turtle agents that are born each tick (that start at the "Single, at home" state at the top middle of the FSA).
- turtles-are-visible switch: If this is set to Off, the turtles will become invisible.

The Interface plot labelled "Agent population" plots the number of agents that currently exist versus time tick for three sets of states: for all states; for just the "Young, parents" state; and for just the "Solitary, retired" state.

HOW IT WORKS

The slider birth-each-tick controls the number of turtle agents that are born each tick. They will start out in the top middle state labelled "Single, at home". Each subsequent tick, these agents will randomly choose to head to one of the outgoing states. Eventually, each agent will end up in the final state labelled "Solitary, retired" at the middle bottom.

HOW TO USE IT

This model is another more complicated example of a FSA. It can be used as a starting point for drawing other FSAs, and then animating them. To run the simulation, press the setup button first, followed by either the go once button (to make the simulation proceed one tick) or the go button (to make the simulation proceed continuously).

WHAT IS ITS PURPOSE?

Its purpose is to show how you can animate FSAs in NetLogo.

RELATED MODELS

See the Two States models.

CREDITS AND REFERENCES

To refer to this model in publications, please use:

Teahan, W. J. (2010). Life Cycle Stages NetLogo model.
Artificial Intelligence. Ventus Publishing Aps.

PROCEDURES

; Life Cycle Stages model.
; 
; Based on D Jobber, 1998. "Principles and Practice of Marketing", McGraw-Hill


; Copyright 2009 William John Teahan. All Rights Reserved.

breed [agents agent]
breed [points point]

directed-link-breed [straight-paths straight-path]
directed-link-breed [curved-paths curved-path]

agents-own [location]  ;; holds a point

to setup
  clear-all ;; clear everything
  
  ;; ask patches [ set pcolor white ] ;; make background full of white patches

  set-default-shape points "circle 2"

  create-points 1 [setxy   5  46] ;; point 0
  create-points 1 [setxy -20  32] ;; point 1
  create-points 1 [setxy   5  32] ;; point 2
  create-points 1 [setxy  30  32] ;; point 3
  create-points 1 [setxy -20  18] ;; point 4
  create-points 1 [setxy   5  18] ;; point 5
  create-points 1 [setxy -47   4] ;; point 6
  create-points 1 [setxy -20   4] ;; point 7
  create-points 1 [setxy   5   4] ;; point 8
  create-points 1 [setxy  30   4] ;; point 9
  create-points 1 [setxy  55   4] ;; point 10
  create-points 1 [setxy -20 -10] ;; point 11
  create-points 1 [setxy   5 -10] ;; point 12
  create-points 1 [setxy   5 -24] ;; point 13
  create-points 1 [setxy   5 -38] ;; point 14
            
  ask patches [
    ;; don't allow the viewer to see these patches; they are only for
    ;; displaying labels on separate lines
    if (pxcor =   1 and pycor =  49) [set plabel "Single,"]
    if (pxcor =   1 and pycor =  46) [set plabel "at home"]
    if (pxcor = -24 and pycor =  34) [set plabel "Young,"]
    if (pxcor = -24 and pycor =  31) [set plabel "on own"]
    if (pxcor =   2 and pycor =  34) [set plabel "Young,"]
    if (pxcor =   2 and pycor =  30) [set plabel "couple,"]
    if (pxcor =   1 and pycor =  27) [set plabel "no children"]
    if (pxcor =  41 and pycor =  34) [set plabel "Young,"]
    if (pxcor =  44 and pycor =  31) [set plabel "divorced,"]
    if (pxcor =  46 and pycor =  28) [set plabel "no children"]
    if (pxcor = -23 and pycor =  18) [set plabel "Young,"]
    if (pxcor = -23 and pycor =  15) [set plabel "divorced,"]
    if (pxcor = -23 and pycor =  12) [set plabel "with children"]
    if (pxcor =  15 and pycor =  18) [set plabel "Young,"]
    if (pxcor =  16 and pycor =  15) [set plabel "parents"]
    if (pxcor = -50 and pycor =   4) [set plabel "Middle-aged,"]
    if (pxcor = -51 and pycor =   1) [set plabel "on own"]
    if (pxcor = -23 and pycor =   4) [set plabel "Middle-aged,"]
    if (pxcor = -23 and pycor =   1) [set plabel "divorced,"]
    if (pxcor = -24 and pycor =  -2) [set plabel "with children"]
    if (pxcor =   2 and pycor =   4) [set plabel "Middle-aged,"]
    if (pxcor =   2 and pycor =  -1) [set plabel "parents"]
    if (pxcor =  26 and pycor =   4) [set plabel "Middle-aged,"]
    if (pxcor =  26 and pycor =   1) [set plabel "married,"]
    if (pxcor =  25 and pycor =  -2) [set plabel "no children"]
    if (pxcor =  51 and pycor =   4) [set plabel "Middle-aged,"]
    if (pxcor =  51 and pycor =   1) [set plabel "divorced,"]
    if (pxcor =  50 and pycor =  -2) [set plabel "no children"]
    if (pxcor = -23 and pycor = -10) [set plabel "Middle-aged,"]
    if (pxcor = -23 and pycor = -13) [set plabel "divorced,"]
    if (pxcor = -24 and pycor = -16) [set plabel "no dependent children"]
    if (pxcor =   2 and pycor = -10) [set plabel "Empty nester,"]
    if (pxcor =   2 and pycor = -15) [set plabel "married,"]
    if (pxcor =   1 and pycor = -18) [set plabel "working"]
    if (pxcor =   2 and pycor = -22) [set plabel "Empty nester,"]
    if (pxcor =   2 and pycor = -25) [set plabel "married,"]
    if (pxcor =   1 and pycor = -28) [set plabel "retired"]
    if (pxcor =   2 and pycor = -38) [set plabel "Solitary,"]
    if (pxcor =   2 and pycor = -41) [set plabel "retired"]
  ]
        
  ask points [set size 5 set color blue] 

  ask point  0 [create-straight-path-to point 1]
  ask point  0 [create-straight-path-to point 2]
  ask point  1 [create-straight-path-to point 2]
  ask point  1 [create-straight-path-to point 6]
  ask point  2 [create-curved-path-to point 3]
  ask point  2 [create-straight-path-to point 5]
  ask point  2 [create-straight-path-to point 9]
  ask point  3 [create-curved-path-to point 2]
  ask point  3 [create-straight-path-to point 10]
  ask point  4 [create-curved-path-to point 5]
  ask point  5 [create-curved-path-to point 4]
  ask point  5 [create-straight-path-to point 8]
  ask point  6 [create-straight-path-to point 14]
  ask point  7 [create-curved-path-to point 8]
  ask point  8 [create-curved-path-to point 7]
  ask point  8 [create-straight-path-to point 12]
  ask point  9 [create-straight-path-to point 13]
  ask point 10 [create-straight-path-to point 14]
  ask point 11 [create-curved-path-to point 12]
  ask point 12 [create-curved-path-to point 11]
  ask point 12 [create-straight-path-to point 13]
  ask point 13 [create-straight-path-to point 14]
            
  ;; ask points [ create-path-with one-of other points ]
  ;; lay it out so links are not overlapping

  ask straight-paths [ set thickness 0.5 ]
  ask curved-paths [ set thickness 0.5 ]
  set-default-shape curved-paths "curved path"
    
  ;; put some "walker" turtles on the network
end

to go
  ask links [ set thickness 0.5 ]
  create-agents births-each-tick [
    set color lime
    ;;set location one-of points
    set location point 0
    move-to location
    ifelse turtles-are-visible
        [set size 10]
        [set size 0]
  ]
  ask agents [
    let new-location one-of [out-link-neighbors] of location
    ifelse (new-location = nobody)
      [ die ] ;; Kill agent that reaches bottom point
  ;;else
      [ 
        ;; change the thickness of the link I will cross over
        ask [link-with new-location] of location [ set thickness 1.1 ]
        face new-location  ;; not strictly necessary, but improves the visuals a bit
        move-to new-location
        set location new-location
      ]
  ]
  update-plot
  tick
end

to update-plot
  set-current-plot "Agent population"
  set-current-plot-pen "All"
  plot count agents
  set-current-plot-pen "Yng par"
  plot count turtles-on point 5
  set-current-plot-pen "Sol ret"
  plot count turtles-on point 14
end

;
; Copyright 2010 by William John Teahan.  All rights reserved.
;
; Permission to use, modify or redistribute this model is hereby granted,
; provided that both of the following requirements are followed:
; a) this copyright notice is included.
; b) this model will not be redistributed for profit without permission
;    from William John Teahan.
; Contact William John Teahan for appropriate licenses for redistribution for
; profit.
;
; To refer to this model in publications, please use:
;
; Teahan, W. J. (2010).  Life Cycle Stages NetLogo model.
;   Artificial Intelligence. Ventus Publishing Aps.
;