This is a minimal working example to simulate UIU dynamics on connection data of an ant colony. The connection data is present in form of a raw text file and corresponds only to a small sample of the data of a single colony used in our paper Short-term activity cycles impede information transmission in ant colonies.
uiu_single_trans.py is the script to load the connection data and run UIU-porpagation on those connections. It can be run from the command line. For further details on how to run it open a console, navigate to the folder containing the script and type:
python uiu_single_trans.py --help
An exemplary command could look like so:
python uiu_single_trans.py ...
Note that you can also explicitly specify the column names holding the start and stop times and the node ids/names such that you can load
connection data with slightly different format. For the here presented example the column names were Starttime, Stoptime, Tag1, Tag2 and the delimiter between
columns is ,. These are also the default values for the uiu_single_trans.py script. If your column names deviate or you use another delimiter, like TAB you need
to provide the names of your columns and/or the delimiter as arguments to the scripts.
As an example suppose you have a data file looking somehow like so:
Node1 Node2 T_start T_stop
a b 2 3
a c 2 4
...
The command to carry out 2 UIU simulations on this data could look like:
python uiu_single_trans.py