M.O.T.H.

[Nick Thompson]

All,

For those of you who have been following the MOTH saga, we now have a version of the model we are willing to post to the net at http://www.redfish.com/models/Moth.htm
The model is beautifully written in Nlogo by Owen and contains data collection features and an extensive information tab explaining its raison detre.  Please try it out and send us any comments that occur to you.

Stephen assures me that in sending you this message, I am in effect alerting Google to the existence of the model and that Redfish will be entirely immobilized by hits on the MOTH for the next week.  

Hooray.   Thanks, all.

Nick




Nicholas S. Thompson
Professor of Psychology and Ethology
Clark University
[hidden email]
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/
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[Seth Myers-3]

I'm currently building an object oriented database with a GUI.  I'm doing
both the database and the front end in Java, and I'm using the Piccolo Java
Library to make a graphic representation of the database.  I know that this
isn't very efficient but I haven't been able to find anything that meets all
of our requirements.  The database has to have several classifications of
nodes as well as edges, and it will need to change frequently so a
relational database is out of the question.  I was wonder if anyone knows of
an application, comercial or otherwise, that would meet these requirements.
I've already looked at both VisualUML and Tom Sawyer Visualization
extensively, but neither one has the capability to import data; you have to
create each node and edge manually.  This database will have over a thousand
nodes by the time it is finished, so neither application is a viable option.

Thanks for any input,
Seth
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[Gary Schiltz-3]

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[Jochen Fromm]

Interesting NLogo Simulation. Myway or the Highway ... Hit & Run ... Have
you tried to write an article ? I would send it to Nature.. By the way, here
is something refreshing, if you haven't seen it yet
http://www.virtualbartender.beer.com/VB1/   Try to order a "Beer". There are
a lot of other possibilities.. This one is even better
http://www.virtualbartender.beer.com/VB2/

-J.

----- Original Message -----
From: Nicholas Thompson
To: Friam
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 3:35 AM
Subject: [FRIAM] M.O.T.H.


All,

For those of you who have been following the MOTH saga, we now have a
version of the model we are willing to post to the net at
http://www.redfish.com/models/Moth.htm
The model is beautifully written in Nlogo by Owen and contains data
collection features and an extensive information tab explaining its raison
detre.  Please try it out and send us any comments that occur to you.

Stephen assures me that in sending you this message, I am in effect alerting
Google to the existence of the model and that Redfish will be entirely
immobilized by hits on the MOTH for the next week.

Hooray.   Thanks, all.

Nick

[Carl Tollander]

As long as Gary has raised the RDF flag, we should add
Sesame (http://www.openrdf.org/) or Kowari (http://kowari.org/).
Haven't worked directly with either of them yet, but references to them
keep coming up in research.
(Well, not quite. Been looking at PiggyBank
(http://simile.mit.edu/piggy-bank/architecture.html)
which uses Sesame, but haven't given it sufficient tests yet to have an
informed opinion).

I second the suggestion you look at Jena.  I used it before and was
pretty happy with it.

Let us know what you decide!

Carl

Gary Schiltz wrote:

> Well, let's see, nodes linked to each other via edges... nodes and
> edges of different types... sounds like RDF to me. If you're not
> familiar with RDF, it's the W3C sanctioned Resource Description
> Framework, the general purpose language for describing web resources
> (actually, since it uses the notion of Uniform Resource Identifiers
> (URIs), which don't need to be web retrievable, RDF can be used to
> represent anything). A couple of good storage mechanisms and
> manipulation packages for RDF are Jena (open source, at
> http://jena.sourceforge.net) and RDF Gateway (commercial, at
> www.intellidimension.com <http://www.intellidimension.com>). RDF
> information is at www.w3.org/RDF <http://www.w3.org/RDF>.
>
> // Gary
>
> Seth Myers wrote:
>
>> I'm currently building an object oriented database with a GUI.  I'm
>> doing both the database and the front end in Java, and I'm using the
>> Piccolo Java Library to make a graphic representation of the
>> database.  I know that this isn't very efficient but I haven't been
>> able to find anything that meets all of our requirements.  The
>> database has to have several classifications of nodes as well as
>> edges, and it will need to change frequently so a relational database
>> is out of the question.  I was wonder if anyone knows of an
>> application, comercial or otherwise, that would meet these
>> requirements.  I've already looked at both VisualUML and Tom Sawyer
>> Visualization extensively, but neither one has the capability to
>> import data; you have to create each node and edge manually.  This
>> database will have over a thousand nodes by the time it is finished,
>> so neither application is a viable option.
>>  
>> Thanks for any input,
>> Seth
>>
>>
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