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Title: |
Contextual
Activation For Agent-Based Simulation |
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Authors: |
Fabien Badeig, Flavien Balbo, Suzanne Pinson |
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ECMS
2007 Proceedings Edited
by: Ivan Zelinka, Zuzana Oplatkova, Alessandra Orsoni ISBN:
978-0-9553018-2-7 Doi: 10.7148/2007 21st European
Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Prague, June
4-6, 2007 |
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Citation
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Badeig, F., Balbo, F., & Pinson, S.
(2007). Contextual Activation For Agent-Based Simulation. ECMS 2007
Proceedings edited by: I. Zelinka, Z. Oplatkova, A. Orsoni
(pp. 128-133). European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2007-0128. |
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DOI: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.7148/2007-0128 |
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Abstract: |
When designing agent-based simulation, the choice of a
coordination model is a key issue, since one of the difficulties is to link
the activation of the agents with their context efficiently. Current
solutions sepa- rate the activation phase from the
action phase of the agents, and each action phase is based on local agent context
analysis which is time-expensive. Moreover, be-
cause the link between the context and the action is an internal part of the
agent, it is more difficult to modify the way the agent reacts to the context
without altering the way the agent is implemented. Our proposal, called EASS
(Environment as Active Support for Simulation), is a new approach for agent
activation, where the con- text is analysed inside
the environment and conditions the activation of the agents. The main result
of contex- tual activation
is to simplify the achievement of complex simulations and to decrease
run-time. The EASS model has been implemented within the kernel of MadKit, a multi-agent platform, and the first results are
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