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Remove and generalize voting/social choice behavior currently implement inside Environment and MultiEnvironment into its own module.

API suggestion: the module can be used to initiate voting behavior in the environments by giving a root vote gathering method (get_votes or _gather_votes) and the candidates for the voting.

This should make the environments less cluttered and help implementing new social choice functionality.

Connections to other agents from a given graph structure would make a versatile enhancement to current functionality and help developing agent societies with different connection graph structures.

Possible constraints: Graph should have exactly the same number of nodes as there are agents in the environment.

How to make this functionality to scale for DistributedEnvironment?

Add a support for using login credentials when creating SSH-connections for distributed
environments in ds.py.

Make CreativeAgent.connections more general by reformulating them as a dict with agent addresses as keys instead of a list . The values can then be also dicts which can store any needed information about the agent connection, e.g. the attitude. Remove attitudes also.

MultiEnvironment would benefit from similar functionality as DistributedEnvironment.wait_nodes with a timeout threshold rather than fixed timeout on single calls currently used when setting host managers.