Terms, abbreviations, etc. that I use in experiments

Action rate

The per-choice, per-epoch 'rate' at which an action is performed. Specifically, it is the count of the number of times agents choose an action in an epoch, divided by the count of all times agents are given a choice of actions in an epoch.

Experiment

For my purposes, an experiment is a set of run sets.

fdf

Food Distribution Function. Can be seasonal, constant-rate or sporadic. Cyclical and sinusoidal is equivalent to seasonal; periodic is normally equivalent to sporadic.

Fitness

As a statistic in the simulation, fitness is simply the number of grandchildren of an agent, after the agent and all its children have died. In a stable population, this should average 4 for the whole population (i.e. 2 children who each have 2 children).

Run set

A set of runs, where each run is identical aside from the random seed.