Welcome to MASON, a simulator designed for simple-multiagent simulations,
or to be used as a core library inside more sophisticated multiagent
simulators. 

MASON was written by Sean Luke, Gabriel Catalin Balan, and Liviu Panait. 
Additional code and apps were written by Daniel Kuebrich and Sean Paus. 
Much help was provided by Claudio Cioffi-Revilla and Ken De Jong. 
MASON is a joint effort of George Mason University's Evolutionary
Computation Laboratory (in the Computer Science Department), and GMU's
Center for Social Complexity. 

Quick Start: The directory which holds this file is called 'mason'.  Add
this directory to your CLASSPATH.  Then try running
	java sim.display.Console
...and pick an application from the pop-up list which appears.  Try
sim.app.heatbugs.HeatBugsWithUI for example.

LICENSE.  Mason's Open Source License is located at docs/license.html .
          Please read this first.

INSTALLATION AND INTRODUCTION.  Installation information, and the root 
          point for all documentation, can be found at docs/index.html .

CHANGES.  The changes from previous versions are listed in the CHANGES file.

BUGS.  This file contains some well-known bugs in MASON.

If you have any questions, you have two routes.  First, check out the 
MASON-INTEREST-L discussion group on the MASON website.  Second, the MASON
website also lists a help email address you can send mail to if you get
desperate.  The website URL is http://cs.gmu.edu/~eclab/projects/mason/
