general oversimplified abstract overview

world
- e.g. an anthill, or a planet..
- organizes how things work together
- has:
  - playground
  - list of agents
    - killagent(agent)
  - list of artefacts
aco - world
- is a:
  - world
- for ants as agents with Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm as interaction rule
- has:
  - playground with
    - penalty raster layer
    - pheromone raster layer
    - vector layer with holes/anthills
  - list of ants
  - list of attractors..
  - list of holes/anthills..
  - several values that control the behaviour..
playground
- e.g. dirt, dead wood/leaves/needles, pheromone, etc.
- manages layers => coordinates or graph(?)
- has:
  - layers
    - knows its borders
      - start/end coordinates
      - graph ...
    - calcgraph(raster, degreeoffreedom, sizeofstep)
    - neighbours(node)->listofedges
    - neighbours(coordinates)->mapofcoordinate=>value's
layer (meta)
- one aspect from playground (one layer therefore..)
rasterlayer - layer
- is a:
  - layer
- e.g. pheromone "smell"
- represents gis-rasterlayer
- has:
  - borders
  - matrix
vectorlayer - layer
- is a:
  - layer
- e.g. holes in the ground
- represents gis-vectorlayer
- has:
  - borders
  - list of vector objects/points/..
graph - layer (not yet available...)
- is a:
  - layer
- made from raster-/vectorlayer
- has:
  - map of nodes
    - node
      - id
      - n:edges list
  - list of edges
    - edge
      - 2:nodes
      - mapof'attribute=value's
agent
- e.g. a passenger or an ant
- "lives" sort of in the world and on the playground
- has:
  - ttl
  - knowscompass
  - degreeoffreedom - (might be different from playground)
  - walk()
ant - agent
- is a:
  - agent
- actor in an aco world
- has:
  - home position / position of origin / birthplace
  - list of its positions visited
  - pheromone intensity to use on certain circumstances
  - penalty value for its moving velocity
  - decisionbase for knowing how to find new positions
  - decisionbase for remembering visited positions