Simulating various aspects of scientific communication via Agent-based models.
Project description
SciCom
Simulating various aspects of scientific communication via Agent-based models.
In this first version, we introduce an agent-based modelling approach to reconstruct communication in the Republic of Letters.
Documentation is available on ReadTheDocs.
Installation
tl;dr Use pip
pip install scicom
Consider using a clean virtual environment to keep your main packages separated. Create a new virtual environment and install the package
python3 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
pip install scicom
Testing
Tests can be run by installing the dev requirements and running tox
.
pip install scicom[dev]
tox
Building documentation
The documentation is build using sphinx. Install with the dev option and run
pip install scicom[dev]
tox -e docs
Funding information
The development is part of the research project ModelSEN
Socio-epistemic networks: Modelling Historical Knowledge Processes,
in Department I of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany (Grant No. 01 UG2131).
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