Simulator¶

This page describes the class Simulator

The class Simulator is derived from SimParams and contains the actual simulation loop and handles events.

Code:

Simulator.h

Simulator.cpp

The above figure shows the entire sprocess of a simulation (cf Simulator::runSimulation()).

Before the simulation loop

In the preLoop stage all populations get to call their preLoop() methods which in turn call the preLoop methods of all their actions.

Inside the simulation loop

The actual simulation loops through a predefined number of steps, or until all populations have died out.

In each step, all populations get to call their initializeStep() method which in turn calls the initialize() methods for each of their actions.

After this, a loop over all priority levels is started (here the lower priority levels come first), to ensure that the order of the actions is ensured.

For each priority level there is a loop over all populations, which calls all their actions pertaining to this priority level.

Each of these actions is then applied to each agent of the current population (in a parallelized loop).

As the lats phase of the simulation step, once all priority levels have been processed, a new loop over all populations is executed in which each population calls its finalizeStep() method (which in turn calls the finalize() method of each of its actions)

After the simulation loop

After the main simulation loop has terminated, there is a final loop over all populations letting them call their postLoop() methods,

which calls alltheir actions’ postLoop() methods.

Simulator();

virtual ~Simulator();

bool isReady();

int runSimulation();

int writeState(const std::string sQDFOut, int iWhat, std::vector<std::pair<std::string, int>> &vSub, int iDumpMode);

void showInputs();

void setInterrupt();