Agents in Discrete Event Simulation

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Andre Bargiela and Eugene Kerckhoffs (eds.)
Proceedings of the
10th European Simulation Symposium ``Simulation in Industry - Simulation Technology: Science and Art'' (ESS'98),
October 26-28, Nottingham, SCS Publications, Ghent, 129-136, 1998.

Test beds for multi-agent systems provide the means for experimenting with multiple agents that act and interact concurrently in their environment. Mostly, test beds constitute specialized tools which provide specific scenarios for testing specific agent-architectures. To facilitate reuse and a flexible compositional construction of experimental frames for multi-agent systems, JAMES, a Java Based Agent Modeling Environment for Simulation, explores the integration of agents within a general modeling and simulation formalism for discrete event systems. Therefore, a compositional and hierarchical model design which supports variable structure models is complemented with a distributed, concurrent execution. Two experiments with planning agents illustrate our approach.

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@InProceedings{UhSc98,
  author       = {Adelinde M. Uhrmacher and Bernd Schattenberg},
  title        = {Agents in Discrete Event Simulation},
  booktitle    = {10TH European Simulation Symposium ``Simulation in Industry -- Simulation Technology: Science and Art'' (ESS'98)},  
  pages        = {129-136},
  year         = {1998},
  editor       = {Andre Bargiela and Eugene Kerckhoffs},
  address      = {Nottingham, UK},
  month        = oct,
  organization = {The Society for Computer Simulation International (SCS)},
  publisher    = {SCS Publications, Ghent}
}