Task description

The Agent hierarchy editor enables the user to define a hierarchy of agents with child-parent relations between them. Agents are used to model entities outside of the modelled system. Agents can have quantities influencing the rest of the system, which are sometimes called exogenous or external influences.

Task context

The Agent hierarchy editor is located in the Build tasks workspace and can be accessed from there. Agents can be used in Model fragments and Scenarios and Quantities and Attributes can be attached to them. Build tasks | Scenario editor | Model Fragment editor

Tasks in this workspace

In this workspace Agents can be added to the hierarchy, they can be edited and deleted from the hierarchy and several changes to the layout of the hierarchy can be made.

Add: Agent
Delete: Agent
Edit: Agent
Change view: Collapse | Expand
Layout: Horizontal | List | Vertical
Save: Diagram to EPS file

Menu options
Edit: Save diagram to EPS file | Add agent | Edit agent | Delete agent
View: Layout horizontal | Layout vertical | Layout as list | Change view collapse | Change view expand
Additional features
Naming ingredients | Tooltips | Action buttons
Definitions involved ingredients
Agent | Attribute | Entity | Influence | Model | Quantity
Icons
Icons related to this task
Related tasks
Other tasks for this ingredient : Add agent | Edit agent | Delete agent
Similar tasks for other ingredients : Edit entity hierarchy | Edit assumption hierarchy | Edit configuration definitions | Edit quantity definitions | Edit quantity spaces definitions | Edit 'About this model and Sketch' | Edit attribute definitions | Edit scenarios definitions | Edit model fragments definitions

Example

Agent definitions editor

The agent definitions editor with Agents 'Scientists' and 'Environment managers' as children from 'Humans'.

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