A quantitative narrative on movement, disease and patch exploitation in nesting agent groups

Wayne M. Getz; Richard Salter; Krti Tallam

The Prelude contains the globally defined array nestPop that keeps track of the population of the 9 colonies used by the model. The Terms colony 0 through colony 8 each select a distinct slot of this array for inclusion in the bar graph Nest Population (see below). The locations of the nests are defined in the Term Nests using the Numerus Cell ID notation CY :X, where Y and X respectively indicate the row and column address of the cell. Nest locations are fed to the SimWorld through input pins to both its Agent and Cell constituents, since both need to be aware of these locations.