/Ecosystem-Simulation

Scientific research on modification of Alexander Dewdney's Wa-Tor

Primary LanguageC++

Simulation of an ecosystem on a toroidal lattice with three species

We study a modification of a well-known dynamic cell process, aiming to mimic the predator-prey interaction in Biology. It is introduced by Alexander Dewdney in 1984 for two “species” on a toroidal lattice, with straightforward procedures for procreation, starvation and death and is observed to have features reasonably similar to both the Lotka-Volterra model and actual predator-prey observation data. Its most important feature is that with suitable initial conditions it stays in balance indefinitely, exhibiting cyclic behaviour.


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Full documentation of the project, last changed on 28 March 2016 main.pdf

Simulation of the ecosystem with three species forming a food chain SimulationOfTheEcosystem.cpp

The genetic algorithm constructed by us (Section 3) GeneticAlgorithm.cpp

Simulation of the memoryless ecosystem suggested (Section 5) MemorylessEcosystem.cpp

The suggested algorithm for finding boindary points for population sizes (Section 6) BoundaryPointsForPopulationSizes.cpp