Effective Distribution of Large Scale Situated Agent-based Simulations

Omar Rihawi, Yann Secq, Philippe Mathieu

2014

Abstract

Agent-based simulations have increasing needs in computational and memory resources when the the number of agents and interactions grows. In this paper, we are concerned with the simulation of large scale situated multi-agent systems (MAS). To be able to simulate several thousands or even a million of agents, it becomes necessary to distribute the load on a computer network. This distribution can be done in several ways and this paper presents two specific distributions: the first one is based on environment and the second one is based on agents. We illustrates the pros and cons of using both distribution types with two classical MAS applications: prey-predator and flocking behaviour models.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Rihawi O., Secq Y. and Mathieu P. (2014). Effective Distribution of Large Scale Situated Agent-based Simulations . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-758-015-4, pages 312-319. DOI: 10.5220/0004756903120319

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart14,
author={Omar Rihawi and Yann Secq and Philippe Mathieu},
title={Effective Distribution of Large Scale Situated Agent-based Simulations},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
year={2014},
pages={312-319},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004756903120319},
isbn={978-989-758-015-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,
TI - Effective Distribution of Large Scale Situated Agent-based Simulations
SN - 978-989-758-015-4
AU - Rihawi O.
AU - Secq Y.
AU - Mathieu P.
PY - 2014
SP - 312
EP - 319
DO - 10.5220/0004756903120319