LEADSTO: a language and environment for analysis of dynamics by simulation

  • Authors:
  • Tibor Bosse;Catholijn M. Jonker;Lourens van der Meij;Jan Treur

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Artificial Intelligence, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information, Division Cognitive Engineering, Nijmegen, The Netherlands;Department of Artificial Intelligence, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;Department of Artificial Intelligence, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • MATES'05 Proceedings of the Third German conference on Multiagent System Technologies
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

This paper presents the language and software environment LEADSTO that has been developed to model and simulate the dynamics of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) in terms of both qualitative and quantitative concepts. The LEADSTO language is a declarative order-sorted temporal language, extended with quantitative means. Dynamics of MAS can be modelled by specifying the direct temporal dependencies between state properties in successive states. Based on the LEADSTO language, a software environment was developed that performs simulations of LEADSTO specifications, generates simulation traces for further analysis, and constructs visual representations of traces. The approach proved its value in a number of projects within different domains of MAS research.