Component Guide IV: Plugins

Plugins are additional components that provide special functionality. In future releases it will be possible for the user to create and add plugins of his/her own creation (a plugin writers guide is planned). We also anticipate future releases with plugin sets designed for specific application domains.

The current release of Numerus includes 2 plugins, which are described below.

Tabulator

A tabulator is a special component that works with an aggregator in which a constituent (agent, cell, node) has either a Discrete State component or uses a Sequence to model a discrete state. The tabulator counts the number of elements in each state and outputs the totals on separate pins, primarily for graphing or displaying in a table. The states are expected to be consecutive numbers such as 0, 1, 2, etc. The sequence need not start at 0. (The sequence will, or course, always start at 0 if a Discrete State component is used.)

See Firespread in the model library for an example using the Tabulator.

Properties Size. The number of possible states. This determines the number of output pins on the Tabulator. Base Value. States run from Base Value through Base Value + Size - 1.

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