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Agent-oriented modeling of software and information systems and agent-based simulation are commonly viewed as two separate fields with different concepts and techniques. We argue that a sufficiently expressive agent-oriented modeling language for information systems analysis and design should – with some minor extensions – also be usable for specifying simulation models that can be executed by an agent-based simulation system. Specifically, we investigate the suitability of the Agent-Object-Relationship modeling language (AORML) proposed in [Wag03] for simulation. We show that the AOR meta-model and the meta-model of discrete event simulation can be combined into a model of agent-based discrete event simulation in a natural way.
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Wagner, G., Tulba, F. (2003). Agent-Oriented Modeling and Agent-Based Simulation. In: Jeusfeld, M.A., Pastor, Ó. (eds) Conceptual Modeling for Novel Application Domains. ER 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2814. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39597-3_20
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