Design of a software agent for business gaming simulation

Yuji Shinoda; Mina Ryoke; Takao Terano; Yoshiteru Nakamori

doi:10.1007/s11518-006-0083-0

Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering

March 2006, Volume 15, Issue 1, pp 83–94 | Cite as

Design of a software agent for business gaming simulation

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This paper introduces a software agent as a virtual player of the business game called Bakery Game. The business game is a tool to understand business and management principles through experience in a virtual world. In order to construct software agents for the gaming simulation, which is able to participate in a game and become human players’ worthy rival, we combine a simple model that considers the property of Bakery Game with a strategy adjustment model. The agent has so-called strategy parameters that are updated through the experience. The agent changes his strategy depending on particular situation. The agent participates in the game that is regenerated from log data in various situations.

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Gaming simulation strategy searching agent based simulation

Takao Terano is a professor in the Department of Computational Intelligence and System Science, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology. He received his B.S. degree in 丂 mathematical engineering in 1976 and M.E. degree in information engineering in 1978 from the University of Tokyo, and D. Eng. degree in 1991 from Tokyo Institute of Technology. He was with the University of Tsukuba from 1990 to 2004. He was a visiting researcher at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign and Stanford University in 1996. His current research interests include computational organization theory, agent-based modeling toward complex adaptive systems, evolutionary computation, evaluation methodology for knowledge systems projects, and intelligent system development. He is a member and on the editorial board of major academic societies in Japan; and a member of AAAI, IEEE Computer Society, and ACM.

Yoshiteru Nakamori received the B.S., M.S., and PH.D. degree, all in applied mathematics and physics, from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1974, 1976, and 1980, respectively. Since 1981, he has served for the Department of Applied Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Konan University, Kobe, Japan. During the period from September 1984 to December 1985, he stayed at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria where he joined the Regional Water Policies Project. He joined Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in April 1998 as a professor of School of Knowledge Science. His fields of research interest cover the development of modeling methodology based on hard as well as soft data, and support systems for soft thinking around hard data. Current topics are modeling and simulation for large-scale complex systems, system development for environmental policy-making support, and systems methodology based on Japanese intellectual tradition.

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Mina Ryoke
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Takao Terano
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Yoshiteru Nakamori
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1.School of Knowledge ScienceJapan Advanced Institute of Science and TechnologyNomi, IshikawaJapan
2.Graduate School of Business SciencesUniversity of TsukubaBunkyo, TokyoJapan
3.Dept. Computational Intelligence and Systems ScienceTokyo Institute of TechnologyMidori-ku, YokohamaJapan

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