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...the project 4
1.2 Approach, assumptions and goals 4
1.3 Implementation language and support 4
2 Introduction 4
2.1 Agents - what are they? 5
2.2 The promise 5
2.3 The reality and basic infrastructure 5
2.4 Document contents 5
2.5 Cross-reference: sections versus deliverables 6
3 Introduction to Agent Modeling and Simulation 6
4 Two examples 7
4.1 Sugarscape 7
4.1.1 Agents of the SSC system 9
4.2 Emergency Transport 10
4.2.1 Agent Communication Language 11
4.2.2 Agent Interaction Protocols 12
4.2.3 Simulation Setup - subscriptions of data 13
4.2.4 Simulation acts - negotiation for resources 14
4.2.5 Need to plan and focus on certain goals -- motivation 15
4.3 Differences - SSC versus EmT 17
5 Mozart 17
6 Design of a Multi Agent Platform 18
6.1 Base Architecture 18
6.2 Agent Base Environment 19
6.3 Extending a Base Agent 21
7 Modeling Simple Agents 22
7.1 Roles in SSC in respect to Basic Architecture 22
7.2 Use of the ABE in SSC 23
7.3 Summary 23
8 First steps towards distribution 24
8.1 Federations of agents 25
8.2 Federation setup 27
9 Support for Simulations 27
10 Programmable Behavior 28
11 Concrete Real World Simulation 28
12 Parallelisation and Distribution 28
13 Using the Simulation Environment 28
14 Concrete Studies 28
14.1 Web Word of Mouth - a detailed example 29
15 Appendix 29
15.1 Agent Base Environment 29
16 References 29
1 Executive Summary
The purpose of this document is to provide a self-contained description of the work related to the iCities project work-package number 3 (WP3), "Multi Agent System Design, Implementation and Experimentation". It is supposed to be a direct correspondence between the deliverables (reports) and the sections in this document. A cross-reference between sections and deliverables (some of them do no exist yet, but are still supplied as empty sections) is given in the...
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