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Designing and Implementing MABS in AKIRA

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Multi-Agent and Multi-Agent-Based Simulation (MABS 2004)

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Here we present AKIRA, a framework for Agent-based cognitive and social simulations. AKIRA is an open-source project, currently developed mainly at ISTC-CNR, that exploits state-of-the-art techniques and tools. It gives to the programmer a number of facilities for building Agents at different levels of complexity (e.g. reactive, deliberative, layered). Here we describe the main architectural features (i.e. Hybridism of the Agents and the Energy Model) and the theoretical assumptions that motivate it. We also present some simulations.

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  1. ISTC-CNR, viale Marx, 15, 00137, Roma, Italy

    Giovanni Pezzulo & Gianguglielmo Calvi

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  1. Department of Systems and Software Engineering, School of Engineering, Blekinge Institute of Technology, 372 25, Ronneby, Sweden

    Paul Davidsson

  2. School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

    Brian Logan

  3. Tokyo Institute of Technology, 152-8550, tokyo, Japan

    Keiki Takadama

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Pezzulo, G., Calvi, G. (2005). Designing and Implementing MABS in AKIRA. In: Davidsson, P., Logan, B., Takadama, K. (eds) Multi-Agent and Multi-Agent-Based Simulation. MABS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3415. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-32243-6_5

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