[Savannah-hackers] submission of MASToK - savannah.nongnu.org

[David . Baelde]

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David Baelde <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
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Package: MASToK
System name: mastok
Type: non-GNU

Description:
MASToK means Multi Agent Simulation ToolKit.

We want to develop a toolkit which may be used in economy, ecology, biology, 
physics, mathematics, computer sciences, etc.,  with fewer as possible 
knowledge about programming. In all of these sciences, researchers are often 
helped by simulation.

The toolkit will be developped in C++ (using the GNU standard lib),
and provide support for generic simulation, distributed over network. User 
defined agents will be loaded by the toolkit as plugins. We could provide users 
with easy ways to program their agents, in other languages than C++.

Furthermore, we\'ll provide users with graphical interfaces, to monitor 
simulations. These tools will be a little bit less generic : for example, a 
graphical tool will be developped in GTK to monitor simulations where agents 
evolve in a two dimensional world.

Examples will be ditributed, in some of the sciences quoted at the beginning, 
and we\'ve also some more funny projects, in the domain of artificial life and 
gaming.

This project is at its very beginning for now, and we\'ve got no code. But 
I\'ve already worked a bit on the subject. At 
http://brainjuice.free.fr/mrpingouin/choz-0.1b.tar.bz2, you may find a small 
project on which I worked alone.

This time it will be greater and a hard work will be done on the architecture 
of the project, the portability, and the programming style. Indeed, MASToK is a 
school project around object oriented development, and we\'ll be four computer 
science students of the ENS Lyon to work at it.



Other Software Required:
 * standard C++, but may be dependent on GNU\'s standard.
 * GTK+, maybe gtkmm
 * probably gdkpixbuf for a good looking monitoring ...
 * ... or SDL if advanced gaming application ?
 * linux-like networking API (I don\'t know the other APIs, I bet it is POSIX 
compliant, but not Windows compatible ...)
 * pthreads and dl_* functions may be used.
 

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