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ATHOS - A Domain-Specific Language for Multi-agent Simulations

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Advances in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Complexity: The PAAMS Collection (PAAMS 2018)

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Abstract

Creating multi-agent simulations is a challenging task often requiring programming skills at the professional developer level which domain experts scarcely possess. We present a model-driven approach that relieves agent experts from time-consuming, error-prone implementation tasks and allows them to focus on the application itself. With our domain specific language Athos, network-based traffic simulations can be created declaratively. The models are platform independent and executable code can be generated for two popular multi-agent platforms.

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  1. KITE - Kompetenzzentrum für Informationstechnologie, Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen, Gießen, Germany

    Benjamin Hoffmann, Thomas Farrenkopf & Michael Guckert

  2. School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland

    Kevin Chalmers & Neil Urquhart

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Grenoble, France

    Yves Demazeau

  2. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

    Bo An

  3. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Javier Bajo

  4. Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Albacete, Spain

    Antonio Fernández-Caballero

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Hoffmann, B., Chalmers, K., Urquhart, N., Farrenkopf, T., Guckert, M. (2018). ATHOS - A Domain-Specific Language for Multi-agent Simulations. In: Demazeau, Y., An, B., Bajo, J., Fernández-Caballero, A. (eds) Advances in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Complexity: The PAAMS Collection. PAAMS 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10978. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94580-4_30

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