farm - A multi-agent simulation environment

By Bryan Horling (bhorling@cs.umass.edu)
   Roger Mailler (mailler@cs.umass.edu)

Contact: farm@mas.cs.umass.edu

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This package contains the general farm multi-agent simulation
environment, along with the ANTS/SPAM farm configuration.

Quick-start, assuming you already have an uncompressed farm package in
a directory named "farm":

0) You must have an environment which permits password-less ssh
   logins to remote hosts, to distribute the farm plugin processes

1) cd farm (the farm package)
2) make farm
3) cd ants
4) vi lib/runfunctions.pl (edit the @AGENT_HOSTS line at the top)
5) ./runantfarm

Further information can be found in the included farmfaq.html and the
javadoc pages.  The javadoc pages can be found in the doc directories
for each sub package, and contain descriptions of their various
command line parameters among other things.  Questions, bugs or
comments may be made to the farm email address above.

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Development of this code was partially supported by:
   The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) 
   and Rome Laboratory, Air Force Materiel Command, USAF, 
   under agreement number F30602-97-1-0249. 
