10.3) BehaviourSpace Run

If you run the experiment, Netlogo will open a new window giving you the option of a spread sheet and table output, both will create a csv (comma separate value) file, though table output is for most simulation runs easier to read. The simultaneous runs in parallel, is an other brilliant feature of NetLogo, as it will distribute the simulation runs onto as many processor cores as there are available, making most experiments quite quick. Click ok, select a folder to save the file and switch of update view and update plots and monitors, to speed up the process, and in a few moments you will get you first results.

Now, open the csv file with excel and save it as an excel file to allow data analysis. If you look at the data, you will have values for the run number, the two subsidy variables, the time step, and the total PV generation. If your computer used several cores you might get the runs not in the order of the run number and might want to reorder the rows. Since we reported the total-PV-generation value, which is in kWh, we get enormous values again and like to have them in GWh, so we create a new variable on the left dividing the values by 1000000. With these two manipulations we can now display the results of 10 runs for each parameter setting.