Welcome to Kenge world!

Kenge Development project
Department of Geography and Earth Resources
Utah State University

What is Kenge?

Kenge is an extension to the Swarm simulation libraries at the Santa Fe Institute for creating discrete2d surfaces with CA(cellular automata *)-like functionality created from raster GIS data layers. Kenge is a toolkit for creating a ``living'' surface upon which agents act, allowing the landscape and the agents within it to act with equal precedence in an agent-based simulation.

*Cellular automata (CA) - if you want to know what cellular automata are, here are some good sites.
 http://alife.santafe.edu/alife/topics/cas/ca-faq/general/general.html
 http://life.csu.edu.au/complex/tutorials/tutorial1.html
 http://www.stephenwolfram.com/articles/indices/ca.html
 

• Spatial Units as Agents. forthcoming book chapter, Integrating GIS and Agent-Based Modelling Techniques H. R. Gimblett, ed. Oxford, in press
• Also avaialable in pdf and postscript

 

Dr. Paul Box:	Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Earth Resources , Utah State University.
Akiko Ogawa:	graduate student, Forest Resources Department, Utah State University.
Alex Wells:	former programmer

    We have created two applications using Kenge. For descriptions and demonstrations of these applications, click the link texts or images.

 

Floatspace :  A recreational boat behavior aquatic organisms simulation.

Fire : A fire behavir model.

Download Swarm applications (Swarm FTP mirror site)

Links

Dr. Paul Box

The Swarm Simulation Program (The Santa Fe Institute)

Our organization:
  Department of Geography and Earth Resources
  College of Natural Resources
  Utah State University