Cormas User's Guides

Tutorials

Learn to load and manipulate a simple model: ECEC.
Two tutorials are available. With the first one (CormasTutorial1.pdf), the user can manipulate an existing example (Game of Life: Conway.zip) and then prepare its own model from scratch. A cellular automata simulates the diffusion of a fire. A set of firemen agents try to extinguish the fire. They will improve their efficiency by exchanging messages, and by considering fire at different scales.

With the second tutorial (CormasTutorial2.pdf), the user will also build a model from scratch. The model is inspired from a paper by Pepper and Smuts, "Evolution of Cooperation in an Ecological Context" (download the PDF at Santa Fe Institut). The survival of two populations of agents depends on the spatial configuration. The user will also learn how to conduct a sensitivity analysis and the different ways to save the results of a simulation (download the model: MyFirstCormasModel.zip).

User's guide

A User's guide will be available soon, describing architecture of Cormas and explaining the main classes and methods. Nevertheless, the main UML class diagrams of the Cormas kernel are available. About the links between Cormas and some commercial GIS softwares (MapInfo, Idrisi, ArcView), you may have a look to this Cormas/GIS guide.

Smalltalk free books

Some Smalltalk books are freely downloadable. You can find them on the Stéphane Ducasse's web site : http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/FreeBooks.html