Communications of the ACM
ZEUS: a toolkit and approach for building distributed multi-agent systems
Proceedings of the third annual conference on Autonomous Agents
Silk, Java and object-oriented simulation
Proceedings of the 32nd conference on Winter simulation
Extend: the Extend simulation environment
Proceedings of the 32nd conference on Winter simulation
Toward a standard process: the use of UML for designing simulation models
Proceedings of the 32nd conference on Winter simulation
An agent-based framework for linking distributed simulations
Proceedings of the 32nd conference on Winter simulation
Neural networks and Markov models for the iterated prisoner's dilemma
IJCNN'09 Proceedings of the 2009 international joint conference on Neural Networks
IJCNN'09 Proceedings of the 2009 international joint conference on Neural Networks
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We introduce a generic simulation framework suitable for agent-based simulations featuring the support of heterogeneous agents, hierarchical scheduling, and flexible specification of design parameters. One key aspect of this framework is the design specification: we use a format based on the Extendible Markup Language (XML) that is simple-structured yet still enables the design of flexible models. Another issue in agent-based simulations, especially when ready-made components are used, is the heterogeneity arising from both the agents' implementations and the underlying platforms. To tackle such obstacles, we introduce a wrapper technique for mapping the functionality of agents living in an interpreter-based environment to a standardized JAVA interface, thus facilitating the task for any control mechanism (like a simulation manager) because it has to handle only one set of commands for all agents involved. Again, this mapping is made by an XML-based definition format. We demonstrate the technique by applying it to a simple sample simulation of two mass marketing firms operating in an artificial consumer environment.