This repository contains the simulation code for the paper
Paul Gölz and Ariel D. Procaccia: Migration as Submodular Optimization. 2018.
The paper is freely available at http://procaccia.info/papers/migration.pdf.
- Python 3.6 (higher versions might work, but so far are not supported by Gurobi)
- Gurobi with gurobipy python bindings (we used version 8.0.1)
- Igraph (0.7.1)
- Seaborn (0.9.0)
- Pandas (0.23.4)
- Jupyter (4.4.0)
For academic use, Gurobi provides free licenses at http://www.gurobi.com/academia/for-universities.
At the time of this writing, the
installation manual for igraph on OSX
is out of date. We had to directly install brew install igraph, then
pip install python-igraph. Should you see the warning
DeprecationWarning: To avoid name collision with the igraph project, this visualization library has been renamed to 'jgraph'. Please upgrade when convenient.
when importing igraph, then the following StackOverflow answer might help: https://stackoverflow.com/a/36203972.
The individual experiments are provided as Jupyter/IPython notebooks. If you
just want to read them, the easiest way is to go to the corresponding page on
Github, e.g.,
https://github.com/pgoelz/migration/blob/master/job_availability.ipynb, where
they can be viewed in a browser. If you want to replicate our results or
experiment with different parameter settings, you need to install the
dependencies mentioned above. Then, running, say, jupyter notebook num_localities.ipynb opens a browser window, in which you can see our
simulation results and easily rerun them.
While we fix the random seed to 0 in all our experiments, your simulations
might produce slightly different results due to different library versions
being used, non-determinism in these libraries or Python implementation details
such as the iteration order over dictionaries. For what it is worth, we ran
our simulations on a MacBook Pro (2017) with a 3.1 GHz Intel Core Duo i5
processor, with 16 GB of RAM, and running MacOS 10.12.6.
For questions on the simulations, please contact Paul Gölz.