GEAMAS: A Generic Architecture for Agent-Oriented Simulations of Complex Processes |
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Authors: | Pierre Marcenac Sylvain Giroux |
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Affiliation: | (1) IREMIA, University of La Reunion, BP 7151, 97715 St Denis Messag. Cedex 9, La Reunion, France;(2) CIRANO, 2020 rue University, 25eme etage, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 2AJ. E-mail |
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Abstract: | This paper's object is to present the results of the GEAMAS project which aims at modeling and simulating natural complex systems. GEAMAS is a generic architecture of agents used to study the behavior emergence in such systems. It is a multiagent program meant to develop simulation applications. Modeling complex systems requires to reduce, to organize the system complexity and to describe suitable components. Complexity of the system can then be tackled with an agent-oriented approach, where interactions lead to a global behavior. This approach helps in understanding how non-determinist behavior can emerge from interactions between agents, which is near of self-organized criticality used to explain natural phenomena. In the Applied Artificial Intelligence context, this paper presents an agent software architecture using a model of agent. This architecture is composed of three abstract levels over which the complexity is distributed and reduced. The architecture is implemented in ReActalk, an open agent-oriented development tool, which was developed on top of Smalltalk-80. To illustrate our purpose and to validate the architecture, a simulation program to help in predicting volcanic eruptions was investigated. This program was run over a period of one year and has given many satisfying results unattainable up to there with more classical approaches. |
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Keywords: | intelligent distributed processing complex systems modelling multiagent systems smalltalk simulation applications |
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