JAMES - A Java-Based Agent Modeling Environment for Simulation

JAMES - A Java-based Agent Modeling Environment for Simulation stands pars pro toto for the activities in the area of agent-oriented simulation. Possibilities shall be explored to embed deliberative and mobile agents within discrete event simulation and to analyse problems and promises that arise from rooting test beds for multiagent systems in more general discrete event approaches. JAMES is based on a parallel, distributed version of DEVS, emphasizing states and state transition. Agent-oriented simulation is not restricted to agent-oriented model design, but permeate all aspects of computer simulations. Questions shall be persued how agent-oriented software approaches effect the design of current and future simulation systems and how agent-oriented software concepts are and can be employed to improve the interoperation between distributed simulation systems and the reuse of existing models.
 

Group Members

• A. M. Uhrmacher
• F. W. von Henke
• Bernd Schattenberg
• Petra Tyschler
• Dirk Tyschler
• Karsten Gugler
• Bernd Kullick

• Herbert Praehofer, Institut für Systemtheorie, Johannes Keppler Universität, Linz
• Hessam Sarjoughian, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Arizona
• Bernard Zeigler, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Arizona

• B. Schattenberg, A.M. Uhrmacher, Planning Agents in James, Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 89, No. 2, 158-173, 2001.
• A.M. Uhrmacher, B.Kullick, Plug and Test Software Agents in Virtual Environments. In: Proc. Wintersimulation Conference, Orlando 10-13.12.2000, Florida, USA, 1722-1729, 2000.
• A.M. Uhrmacher, K.Gugler, Distributed, Parallel Simulation of Multiple, Deliberative Agents. In: Proc. Parallel and Distributed Simulation (Pads'2000), Bologna 28-31.5.2000, IEEE, Los Alamitos, 101-110, 2000.
• A.M.Uhrmacher, B.Schattenberg, Agents in Discrete Event Simulation. In: Proc. of the ESS'98, October 26-28, Nottingham, SCS Publications, Ghent, 129-136, 1998.
• A.M.Uhrmacher, P.Tyschler, D.Tyschler, Modeling Mobile Agents. International Conference on Web-based Modeling and Simulation. Part of the 1998 SCS Western Multiconference on Computer Simulation. 15-20, 1998.
• A.M. Uhrmacher, Concepts of Object- and Agent-Oriented Simulation. Transactions on SCS, Vol. 14. No. 2, 59-67, 1997.
• A.M. Uhrmacher, B.P. Zeigler, Variable Structure Modelling in Object-Oriented Simulation, International Journal on General Systems, Vol. 24(4), 359-375, 1996.
• A.M. Uhrmacher, Object-Oriented and Agent-Oriented Simulation - Implications for Social Science Applications. In: J. Doran, N. Gilbert, U.Mueller, K.G. Troitzsch (eds.): Social Science Micro Simulation - A Challenge for Computer Science. Springer Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, Berlin, 432-447, 1996.
• A.M. Uhrmacher, R. Arnold, Distributing and Maintaining Knowledge - Agents in Variable Structure Environments. Proc. of the 5th Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Simulation and Planning in High Autonomy Systems. Florida, Gainesville, December, IEEE-Press, San Diego, 1994, 178-184.