Reference 〉Hook

order( Agent agent, Helipad model, int stage )

Helipad allows the order of agent activation to be specified globally as either 'random' or 'linear'. This hook allows more complex ordering to be specified both globally and on a per-primitive basis.

This hook generates a key function for use in list.sort(). The list of agents will be sorted by the value returned from this function, and activated in that order.

The order hook will run once per primitive per stage. Corresponding per-primitive hooks are also available on the pattern [primitive]Order, e.g. bankOrder would apply to the ordering of a 'bank' primitive. See model.addPrimitive().

Required Parameters

  • agent — Agent

    An Agent object to be sorted.

  • model — Helipad

    The model object.

  • stage — int

    The current stage of the model.

Expected Return Value — num|str

An ordinal value by which the agent in question should be sorted.

Notes and Examples

  1. charwick

    Mar 26, 2020 at 21:44

    This example sorts agents by the amount of status they possess, in reverse so agents with high status go first.

    def order(agent, model, stage):
	return -agent.stocks['status']
model.addHook('order', order)

  2. charwick

    Mar 26, 2020 at 21:49

    Returning the same value for all agents leaves the list order unchanged. This example sorts ‘store’-primitive agents by ID, but only in the second stage.

    def storeOrder(agent, model, stage):
	if stage == 2:
		return agent.id
	else: return 1
model.addHook('storeOrder', storeOrder)

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