From f0ce59c96715215b62e9ea1cc6ae87180caae682 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "James P. Howard, II" Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2021 13:46:20 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Pull out the links into a more native RST format --- docs/index.rst | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst index 42e4e2e..519382a 100644 --- a/docs/index.rst +++ b/docs/index.rst @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Introduction .. image:: https://img.shields.io/github/license/JHUAPL/kami :alt: License Information -Agent-based models (ABM)s are models for simulating the actions of +Agent-based models (ABMs) are models for simulating the actions of individual actors within a provided environment to understand the behavior of the agents, most individually and collectively. ABMs are particularly suited for addressing problems governed by nonlinear @@ -36,9 +36,8 @@ Kami provides agent-based modeling modern C++. The objectives in writing Kami are that it be lightweight, memory-efficient, and fast. It should be possible to develop a simple working model in under one hour of C++ development time. Accordingly, the platform is -modeled on the [Mesa](https://mesa.readthedocs.io/en/stable/overview.html) -library in Python, which itself was inspired by the -[MASON](https://cs.gmu.edu/~eclab/projects/mason/) library in Java. +modeled on the Mesa_ library in Python, which itself was inspired +by the MASON_ library in Java. Many ABM platforms are designed around interaction and real time observation of the agent dynamics. Kami does not provide a @@ -48,6 +47,9 @@ Accordingly, Kami is single-threaded and multiple cores should be taken advantage of through multiple parallel runs of the supervising model. +.. _MASON: https://cs.gmu.edu/~eclab/projects/mason/ +.. _Mesa: https://mesa.readthedocs.io + .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 2 :hidden: