defSim

the discrete event framework for social influence models

New to defSim? Learn how to use defSim in this quick introduction or inspect our example notebooks at defSim-examples.

For a description of all of defSim's functions, see the documentation

How to install defSim

To install the package, you can use pip:

pip install defSim

For developers:

Install the current github version using pip install git+https://github.com/defSim/defSim

Similarly, to update from a previously installed version use pip install git+https://github.com/defSim/defSim --upgrade

If you want to edit the code locally, clone the repository to a folder of your choice and execute pip install . in that folder. If you change the package or pull changes run pip install --upgrade . to update the changes.

Changelog

This project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

v0.1.3

• some new output measures have been added: Dispersion, Spread and Coverage
• the Experiment class takes a general parameter_dict dictionary. In the future, supplying the dictionaries network_parameters, attribute_parameters, focal_agent_parameters, neighbor_parameters, influence_parameters and stop_condition_parameters may be deprecated.

v0.1.2

• the wrapper functions Experiment and Simulation accept subclasses of AttributesInitializer, FocalAgentSelector, NeighborSelector and InfluenceOperator