
Model of Academic Research Funding
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These source files constitue a model of academic research funding as reported in:

Geard, N. and Noble, J. (2010) Modelling academic research funding as a resource allocation problem. In: 3rd World Congress on Social Simulation, 6-9 September 2010, University of Kassel, Germany.

The paper (and this code) are available from:

http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/21374/

Requirements for running the model (on a standard linux distribution) are:

Python: http://www.python.org/ 
pylab/matplotlib: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/

Note, this should also run under other environment (Windows, etc.) although it has not been tested on such.


(Brief!) Instructions:
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All parameter values are set in Main.py

The only important parameter setting to change upfront is 'prefix', which controls where output from the simulations is written to.

To reproduce the data presented in the paper, run:

python Main.py

Brief descriptions of other parameters, should you wish to explore further, are given in the code and/or paper.  Should you have any further questions, please contact Nic (nicgeard@gmail.com)

