Agent-oriented Foraminifera Habitat Simulation

An agent-oriented software solution for simulation of marine unicellular organisms called foraminifera is presented. Their simplified microhabitat interactions are described and implemented to run the model and verify its flexibility. This group of well fossilizable protists has been selected due to its excellent "in fossilio" record that should help to verify our future long-run evolutionary results. The introduced system is built utilizing PyAge platform and based on easily exchangeable components that may be replaced (also in runtime). Selected experiments considering substantial and technological efficiency were conducted and their results are presented and discussed. We show that our artificial life simulation follows realistic rules known from nature. The Lotka-Volterra predator-prey dynamics was simulated that proves the potential for extendability to more complex biological phenomena.