Agents

As the name suggests, agents lie at the heart of agent-based modeling.

Every agent has a name and a unique identifier. As a simulation creator, you can set and change the name, but not the ID. The HASH Engine takes care of this for you, so don't worry about including the ID when creating agents.

const agent = {
    agent_id: <uuid v4>, //Set on_create by the hEngine
    agent_name: <string>
}

agent = {
    agent_id = <uuid v4> #Set on_create by the hEngine
    agent_name = <string>
}

Naming your agent is entirely optional. The simplest possible agent is simply {} (although it won't do much of anything!)

An individual agent has a state and a context.

When we define the initial conditions of a simulation, we're defining the initial agents that will be present in the first timestep of the simulation, each of which will have its own state and context.