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A Simulation Framework for Heterogeneous Agents

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  • David Meyer
  • Alexandros Karatzoglou
  • Friedrich Leisch
  • Christian Buchta
  • Kurt Hornik

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We introduce a generic simulation framework suitable for agent-based simulations featuring the support of heterogeneous agents, hierarchical scheduling, and flexible specification of design parameters. One key aspect of this framework is the design specification: we use a format based on the Extendible Markup Language (XML) that is simple-structured yet still enables the design of flexible models. Another issue in agent-based simulations, especially when ready-made components are used, is the heterogeneity arising from both the agents' implementations and the underlying platforms. To tackle such obstacles, we introduce a wrapper technique for mapping the functionality of agents living in an interpreter-based environment to a standardized JAVA interface, thus facilitating the task for any control mechanism (like a simulation manager) because it has to handle only one set of commands for all agents involved. Again, this mapping is made by an XML-based definition format. We demonstrate the technique by applying it to a simple sample simulation of two mass marketing firms operating in an artificial consumer environment. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 2003

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  • David Meyer & Alexandros Karatzoglou & Friedrich Leisch & Christian Buchta & Kurt Hornik, 2003. "A Simulation Framework for Heterogeneous Agents," Computational Economics, Springer;Society for Computational Economics, vol. 22(2), pages 285-301, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:compec:v:22:y:2003:i:2:p:285-301
    DOI: 10.1023/A:1026150300999
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