/P1-Sustainable-Internet

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P1-Sustainable-Internet

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A Discrete-Event-Simulation program written in C, that simulates a given number of users
and their internet activity on certain websites.
The users will get websites recommended based on a collaborative filtering recommendation system with sustainability in mind.
As the simulation progresses the chance of the user taking a more sustainable choice will increase.
The output will show the different simulation blocks with their respective sustainable choice value.

About

This project is a part of the P1 project on first semester (Software).

Group: SW B222

Made by: Ali, Viktor, Frederik, Thorbjørn, Jonas, Alexander

Table of Contents

  1. Prerequisites
  2. Getting started
  3. Tests

Prerequisites

Getting started

Installation

Using git

git clone https://github.com/FredTheNoob/P1-Sustainable-Internet

Configuring the input file

  • Navigate to the input directory

A boilerplate file (websites_data.csv) is provided for use.
If you wish to use your own make sure you follow the csv's format (Avg. visit duration [s],Pages per visit,Weight,Category).

Building and running the simulation

To build the simulation with the input files ensure you are in the root directory, then run:

make

You can then run the simulation in your command line of choice by writing:

./a.out

Or on Windows machines:

./a.exe

NOTE: The simulation may take several minutes depending on your input configuration.

Simulation input explanation

NUM_USERS

  • How many active internet users to have in the simulation.

NUM_WEBSITES

  • The amount of websites in the input csv file.

NUM_CATEGORIES

  • The amount of categories in the input csv file.

AVG_USER_TIME

  • How much time (in seconds) the users have on average each day of the simulation.

SIM_DURATION_DAYS

  • The amount of days the simulation should run.

NUM_SIMULATIONS

  • The amount of simulations to run.

SUSTAINABLE_CHOICE_INCREMENT

  • How much the sustainable choice of the users should increment by each block of simulation.
    (where a block would be referred to as running NUM_SIMULATIONS times)

Tests

Certain functions have been handpicked for a CUTest. This test has been used for black box testing,
and is split into two suites (InsertWebsiteNodeTest.c and WebsiteTest.c)

Building

In the root directory run:

make -C Tests

Running

In the root directory run:

./Tests.out