Geoff Sholler
CSC 410 Project Proposal
1/21/2008
Overseeing Professors
Geoff Sutcliffe
Lev Kapitanski
Basic Overview
A program which will simulate the relation between mosquitos and humans.
Will be programmed in either NetLogo(a programming language and
environment designed to handle such simulations) or Java using the jogl
package for the graphics.
People and mosquito's movements and interactions will be dictated by
probability driven algorithms taking previously gathered data which
include things like a mosquito's attraction to body heat.
Data to build said algorithms will be given to me by Prof. Lev Kapitanski.
End result will be something like dots moving around in a square, color coded
to be human or mosquito, with output being data regarding information
about the number of bites and other such things yet to be determined.
Implementation Ideas
Make the map a 2 dimensional array of pointers pointing to objects if there is
something in the square or to nothing if it is unoccupied or have an array
of human objects and an array of mosquito objects with x and y variables
defined within that are used through the graphics package to dictate
where they objects are.
Movement would be set up by a probability driven system and would update at
given intervals the location of the objects. If a mosquito is within a certain
range of a human, a bite would occur, and this would be marked by
either the human object changing, the mosquito object changing, or both.
Possible Features
Include a lifespan/reproduction rate for the mosquitos such as if two mosquitos
who recently fed occupy the same square, a certain number of new
mosquitos emerge and mosquitos only last for some number of cycles.
