Interaction-Oriented Agent Simulations: From Theory to Implementation
Proceedings of the 2008 conference on ECAI 2008: 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Teleo-reactive programs for agent control
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Environments for multiagent systems state-of-the-art and research challenges
E4MAS'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems
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To ensure multi-agent based simulation models reproducibility, particular attention must be payed on its possible implementation ambiguities. This concerns every aspect of simulation's architecture, including how the agent selects the actions it performs, and on which agents it is performed. On this point, classical agent-centered design methodologies leave room to implicit design choices. We show in this paper how an interaction-centered design methodology provides guidelines to elicit these choices, and to remove possible implementation ambiguities underlying agent design. To illustrate this issue, we study which ambiguities underly even simple models and how our interaction-based methodology makes them appear.