A MODEL-DRIVEN ARCHITECTURE APPROACH FOR AGENT-BASED MODELING AND SIMULATION

Alfredo Garro, Francesco Parisi, Wilma Russo

2011

Abstract

It is widely agreed that a widespread adoption of the Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation (ABMS) approach by experts of typical ABMS domains demands for well-defined processes, modeling techniques and tools able to fully support them in modeling and simulating complex systems. To this end, the paper proposes a Model-Driven process which conforms to the OMG Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) and enables the definition of Platform-Independent simulation Models from which Platform-Dependent simulation Models and the related code can be automatically obtained with significantly reduced programming and implementation efforts.

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Garro A., Parisi F. and Russo W. (2011). A MODEL-DRIVEN ARCHITECTURE APPROACH FOR AGENT-BASED MODELING AND SIMULATION . In Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH, ISBN 978-989-8425-78-2, pages 74-83. DOI: 10.5220/0003648400740083


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@conference{simultech11,
author={Alfredo Garro and Francesco Parisi and Wilma Russo},
title={A MODEL-DRIVEN ARCHITECTURE APPROACH FOR AGENT-BASED MODELING AND SIMULATION},
booktitle={Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH,},
year={2011},
pages={74-83},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003648400740083},
isbn={978-989-8425-78-2},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH,
TI - A MODEL-DRIVEN ARCHITECTURE APPROACH FOR AGENT-BASED MODELING AND SIMULATION
SN - 978-989-8425-78-2
AU - Garro A.
AU - Parisi F.
AU - Russo W.
PY - 2011
SP - 74
EP - 83
DO - 10.5220/0003648400740083