Research Article
DisSimJADE: A framework for the development of Agent-based Distributed Simulation Systems
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2009.5725, author={Daniele Gianni and Andrea D’Ambrogio and Giuseppe Iazeolla}, title={DisSimJADE: A framework for the development of Agent-based Distributed Simulation Systems}, proceedings={2nd International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques}, publisher={ICST}, proceedings_a={SIMUTOOLS}, year={2010}, month={5}, keywords={Discrete event simulation Distributed Simulation Agent-based Simulation Framework JADE HLA}, doi={10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2009.5725} }
- Daniele Gianni
Andrea D’Ambrogio
Giuseppe Iazeolla
Year: 2010
DisSimJADE: A framework for the development of Agent-based Distributed Simulation Systems
SIMUTOOLS
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2009.5725
Abstract
The adoption of an agent-based approach that incorporates intelligence, adaptation and learning abilities has proved to significantly increase the realism and the accuracy of the simulation. Simulation systems of such a kind, however, require computational resources that might be considerable for a single agent, so to become unfeasible when the number of simulated agents scales up. A distributed environment is thus needed to allow the execution of such simulation systems, particularly in the case of scenarios populated by a large number of agents. Building an agent-based distributed simulation system, however, requires both specific expertise and knowledge of distributed simulation standards and a non-negligible amount of effort to develop ad-hoc components. This paper introduces a simulation framework named DisSimJADE, which enables the incorporation of distributed simulation facilities into existing agent-based systems. DisSimJADE is built on top of the popular agent-based framework JADE and allows to define agent-based simulation systems that can be transparently executed either in a local or distributed, therefore bringing significant savings in terms of effort and development time. In addition, DisSimJADE provides a uniform interface to the JADE framework, which further facilitates the production of distributed simulation systems to developers of JADE-based multi-agent systems.