Aspen Elementary (15)/Interim Report

Interim Report
http://mode.lanl.k12.nm.us/get_interim1112.php?team_id=15

The definition of the problem
Disruption and recovery happen frequently in nature. Recovery is a process done to fix 1 or many individuals such as humans, animals or bacteria. When there are many, they form a group that performs many activities. I think that a large disruption will affect more than 50% of the group but less than 90%.

Your plan for solving the problem computationally
I created a group of animals such as rabbits and squirrels. Soon the rabbits and squirrel form their territory by creating outposts. Then a large disruption scares all the animals and they start to scatter in every direction possible. Once the disruption [lightning] ends, the animals will try to reform their territory. I will apply properties to rabbits, as rabbit likes rabbit but no more than 4, and squirrels like squirrels but no more than 8 and the same properties for patches.

A description of the progress you have made up to this time
I read net logo, the tutorials and some instructions and I looked up words and processes in Wikipedia and the free dictionary. The results you expect to get, I expect to get two herds of rabbits and squirrels that are distributed on patches that offer more food to rabbits or to squirrels. Then I will cause an event to scare most of the animals away and see how they recover their initial formation in the beginning.

And at least five citations of information you have referenced

 * 1) http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/docs/ Net Logo website
 * 2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healing Wikipedia website/healing
 * 3) http://www.thefreedictionary.com/healing the free dictionary website
 * 4) http://jmvidal.cse.sc.edu/netlogomas/ Multiagent NetLogo Models
 * 5) http://www.challenge.nm.org/interims/interim_guidelines.shtml

Introduction
Hi, my name is Jeff. More information about me may be found here: About Me.

Progress
Your team has made great progress learning net logo. When you get around to coding the situation you described be sure to come up with a set of rules for the agents that will determine how they will interact with the event and with each other. You might want to even consider changing these rules and studying how your changes affect the end result.

Mentor
Does your team have a mentor?

Moving Forward
Here are a few items to keep in mind:

Your next milestone is Friday, February 10: evaluations

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