Class Community

java.lang.Object

org.episteme.natural.biology.SocialEntity

org.episteme.natural.biology.SocialCollective<Individual>

org.episteme.natural.biology.ecology.Population<Individual>

org.episteme.social.psychology.social.PsychologicalGroup

org.episteme.social.economics.Community

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, Commented, ComprehensiveIdentification, Identified<Identification>, Named, Positioned<Place>, SimulationAgent, TaskProcessor

Direct Known Subclasses:

EarthEcosource, Organization

public class Community
extends PsychologicalGroup
implements TaskProcessor

Represents a primitive or cooperative social PsychologicalGroup where resources are shared. Suitable for modeling anything from animal social structures to human cooperatives. * @version 1.1

Since:

1.0

Author:

Silvere Martin-Michiellot, Gemini AI (Google DeepMind)

See Also:

• Serialized Form

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class SocialCollective

cohesion, leader, members

Fields inherited from class SocialEntity

engine, id, influence, prestige, traits

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
Community(Identification id, String name, Species species, Place place)
Community(Identification id, Species species, Place place)
Community(Species species, Set<Individual> individuals, Place place)	Creates a new Community with initial members.
Community(Species species, Place place)	Creates a new empty Community at a specific place.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	addResource(Resource resource)
void	barterResources(Set<Resource> offered, Community other, Set<Resource> wanted)	Performs a direct resource swap with another community.
boolean	consumeResources(Task task)	Consumes the necessary resources to perform the given task.
Set<Resource>	getResources()	Returns the set of resources available to this processor.
void	removeResource(Resource resource)
void	setResources(Set<Resource> resources)

Methods inherited from class PsychologicalGroup

getFormalTerritory, getLeaders, getRelation, getRelations, setFormalTerritory, setLeaders, setRelation, setRelation

Methods inherited from class Population

addMember, countAlive, countBySex, countByStage, equals, filter, getAgeDistribution, getAverageAge, getAverageFecundity, getFounders, getIndividuals, getLocation, getOldestAge, getPosition, getSexRatio, getSpecies, getTerritory, getYoungestAge, hashCode, processEvent, setIndividuals, setTerritory, size, toString

Methods inherited from class SocialCollective

getCohesion, getLeader, getMembers, removeMember, setCohesion, setLeader

Methods inherited from class SocialEntity

getEngine, getId, getInfluence, getPrestige, getSimId, getTraits, interact, setEngine, setInfluence, setPrestige

Methods inherited from class Object

clone, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface Commented

getComments, getTrait, setComments

Methods inherited from interface ComprehensiveIdentification

getName, getTrait, setName, setTrait

Constructor Details

Community

public Community(Species species,
 Place place)

Creates a new empty Community at a specific place.

Parameters:

species - predominant species

place - location

Community

public Community(Identification id,
 Species species,
 Place place)

Community

public Community(Identification id,
 String name,
 Species species,
 Place place)

Community

public Community(Species species,
 Set<Individual> individuals,
 Place place)

Creates a new Community with initial members.

Method Details

getResources

public Set<Resource> getResources()

Description copied from interface: TaskProcessor

Returns the set of resources available to this processor.

Specified by:

getResources in interface TaskProcessor

Returns:

the set of available resources.

consumeResources

public boolean consumeResources(Task task)

Description copied from interface: TaskProcessor

Consumes the necessary resources to perform the given task.

Specified by:

consumeResources in interface TaskProcessor

Parameters:

task - the task to perform.

Returns:

true if resources were successfully consumed; false otherwise.

addResource

public void addResource(Resource resource)

removeResource

public void removeResource(Resource resource)

setResources

public void setResources(Set<Resource> resources)

barterResources

public void barterResources(Set<Resource> offered,
 Community other,
 Set<Resource> wanted)

Performs a direct resource swap with another community.