Agents & artefacts for multiple models coordination

• DOI: 10.1145/1774088.1774513
• Publication Date: 2010-04-27T12:45:48Z
• Authors: Julien Siebert; Laurent Ciarletta; Vincent Chevrier
• Keywords: decentralization; [INFO.INFO-MA]Computer Science [cs]/Multiagent Systems [cs.MA]; multiple interacting models; data-driven coordination model; ACM; 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; A&A paradigm; [INFO.INFO-MA] Computer Science [cs]/Multiagent Systems [cs.MA]; 02 engineering and technology

Complex systems simulation implies the interaction of different scientific fields. However, most of the time people involved into the simulation process do not know intricate distributed simulation tools and only care about their own domain modelling. We propose a framework (called AA4MM) to build a simulation as a society of interacting models. The main goal is to reuse existing models and simulators and to make them interact. The coordination challenges remain to the AA4MM framework so that the simulation design and implementation stay as simple as possible. In this paper, we present the coordination model which intends to decentralize the simulators interactions. We propose to use the environment through the notion of artefact in order to deal with the coherence, compatibility and coordination issues that appear in parallel simulations.