Complex Systems 530 Project - Adaptive Search Engines

By Jason Whitfield

Code of Interest

Simulation and ANTs code is contained in ANTS.cpp, distribution.cpp, SearchEngine.cpp, simulate.cpp, User.cpp, and WebPage.cpp. The other files are just for running the simulations efficiently.

Building and Running Project

Requires CMake version 3.5+ and a compiler with C++17 support.

1. Run CMake.

   cmake .

2. Run make.

   make

3. Execute simulation program. PARAM_PATH is a path to a simulation parameter file or a directory containing such files. Results are written to the outputs directory.

   ./search_engine PARAM_PATH [PARAM_PATH ...]

4. Execute ANTs optimization program.

   ./ants

Simulation Parameter Files

Simulation parameter either specify the parameters used to run the simulation, or a sweep on one parameter. Unspecified parameters take the value in params/default.params.

Valid parameter settings:

NUM_USERS
NUM_PAGES
MAX_INFO_INT
PAGE_LENGTH
PAGE_LENGTH_MIN
PAGE_LENGTH_MAX
PAGE_STD_DEV
PAGE_STD_DEV_MIN
PAGE_STD_DEV_MAX
PAGE_CLICK_WEIGHT
INFO_FOUND_WEIGHT
TOPIC_SIMILARITY_WEIGHT
USER_LENGTH
USER_LENGTH_MIN
USER_LENGTH_MAX
USER_STD_DEV
USER_STD_DEV_MIN
USER_STD_DEV_MAX
USER_SAT_PCT
USER_SAT_PCT_MIN
USER_SAT_PCT_MAX