Application of BML to inter-agent communication in the ITSimBw simulation environment

  • Authors:
  • Philipp Hügelmeyer;Ulrich Schade;Thomas Zöller

  • Affiliations:
  • Fraunhofer IAIS, Sankt Augustin, Germany;FGAN -- FKIE, Wachtberg, Germany;Fraunhofer IAIS, Sankt Augustin, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 39th conference on Winter simulation: 40 years! The best is yet to come
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In this contribution we analyze communication requirements of multi-agent simulation systems using IT-SimBw -- developed at Fraunhofer IAIS -- as an example. A focus is put on issues concerning inter-agent communication but complementary aspects of user interaction and coupling with C2 systems are also discussed. We propose an augmented version of the battle management language BML as a communication protocol that perfectly matches our communication requirements both syntactically as well as on the semantic level. We furthermore explain how such BML messages are processed by our system.