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| 1 | +ComplexNetworkSim is a Python package for the simulation of agents |
| 2 | +connected in a complex network. |
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| 4 | +Update February 2014: code is now available on github for you to fork if you want to, here: https://github.com/jschaul/ComplexNetworkSim |
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| 6 | +The framework can can create a virtual complex network with virtual agents |
| 7 | +that can interact with each other. This can be used for example to study |
| 8 | +the spread of an epidemic over this simulated network and compare it |
| 9 | +with a phenomenon in the real world. Agent-based simulation tools |
| 10 | +generally operate on a simple topology such as grids or lattices, but |
| 11 | +this framework goes beyond this limitation by providing support for |
| 12 | +simulation over complex topologies (i.e. any kind of non-regularly |
| 13 | +connected graph). In addition, this project is not |
| 14 | +limited to a static network, but also takes into account temporal |
| 15 | +networks, where processes can dynamically change the underlying network |
| 16 | +structure over time. |
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| 18 | +The package requires `NetworkX`_ and `SimPy`_ to run simulations. It also requires |
| 19 | +`matplotlib`_ (and `NumPy`_) for the visualisations and optionally `ImageMagick`_ for animated .gif images. |
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| 21 | +Please see http://packages.python.org/ComplexNetworkSim for documentation, installation instructions, background information and how to get started using this package. |
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| 24 | +.. _SimPy: http://simpy.sourceforge.net/ |
| 25 | +.. _NetworkX: http://networkx.lanl.gov/ |
| 26 | +.. _ImageMagick: http://www.imagemagick.org/ |
| 27 | +.. _NumPy: http://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy/files/NumPy/ |
| 28 | +.. _matplotlib: http://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib/ |
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