Designing Agent Behaviour in Agent-Based Simulation through Participatory Method

Authors:
Patrick Taillandier;Elodie Buard
Affiliations:
IRD, UMI UMMISCO 209, Bondy, France 93143 and IFI, MSI, UMI 209, Ha Noi, Viet Nam;COGIT IGN, Saint-Mandé, France 94165 and UMR Géographie Cités, Paris, France 75006
Venue:
PRIMA '09 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Principles of Practice in Multi-Agent Systems
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Agent-based simulation has demonstrated its usefulness for the modelling of complex systems. However, the simulation widely depends on the agent behaviour designing. In order to facilitate the definition of such behaviour, we propose an approach based on a participatory method: a domain expert directly enters his knowledge about entities in a specific environment. In this paper, we propose to formalise the agent behaviour by using a combination of production rules and of a multi-criteria decision making method. An experiment, carried out in the domain of ecological simulation, is presented. This first experiment shows promising results for our approach.