Multi-agent simulation as a tool for modeling societies: Application to social differentiation in ant colonies
Lecture notes in computer sciencePublished 1 January 1994
Alexis Drogoul, Jacques Ferber
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A multiagent simulation system based on the definition of reactive agents whose behavior is governed by the selection of simple competing tasks due to stimulus's perception is presented.
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Abstract. This paper presents the notion of multi-agent simulation that is based on the definition of computational agents that represent individual organisms (or groups of organisms) in a one to one correspondence. We discuss the properties of multi-agent simulation. We then present a multiagent simulation system based on the definition of reactive agents whose behavior is governed by the selection of simple competing tasks due to stimulus's perception. An example of a simulation of an ant colony follows as an illustration of the multiple domains in which multi-agent simulation may be used. 1.
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