EXTENDING X-MACHINES TO SUPPORT REPRESENTATION OF SPATIAL 2-D AGENTS

Isidora Petreska, Petros Kefalas, Marian Gheorghe, I. Stamatopoulou

2012

Abstract

Starting with the notion of modelling biologically inspired agents, this paper focuses on their spatial characteristics. It will be demonstrated that one of the most prominent formalisms in modelling the behaviour of biological colonies, X-machines, cannot provide a neat and effective way to modelling spatial agents (i.e. agents distributed and move through a physical space). We introduce a X-machines variation that besides facilitating formal modelling, will provide grounds towards visual animation of these systems. This approach resulted into a novel progression, Spatial X-machines, without retracting the legacy characteristics of X-machines such as testing and verification strategies. Unlike other formalisms that go behind the concept of treating the agent’s behaviour as one uniform component, Spatial X-machines tend to draw a separation between different types of agent’s behaviour.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Petreska I., Kefalas P., Gheorghe M. and Stamatopoulou I. (2012). EXTENDING X-MACHINES TO SUPPORT REPRESENTATION OF SPATIAL 2-D AGENTS . In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-8425-96-6, pages 54-61. DOI: 10.5220/0003744600540061

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart12,
author={Isidora Petreska and Petros Kefalas and Marian Gheorghe and I. Stamatopoulou},
title={EXTENDING X-MACHINES TO SUPPORT REPRESENTATION OF SPATIAL 2-D AGENTS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,},
year={2012},
pages={54-61},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003744600540061},
isbn={978-989-8425-96-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,
TI - EXTENDING X-MACHINES TO SUPPORT REPRESENTATION OF SPATIAL 2-D AGENTS
SN - 978-989-8425-96-6
AU - Petreska I.
AU - Kefalas P.
AU - Gheorghe M.
AU - Stamatopoulou I.
PY - 2012
SP - 54
EP - 61
DO - 10.5220/0003744600540061