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, so don't worry about including this when creating agents.

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

class Agent:
    agent_id = <uuid v4> #Set on_create by the hEngine
    agent_name = <string>

struct Agent {
    agent_id: uuid, //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.