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SPADES - A Distributed Agent Simulation Environment With Software-in-the-Loop Execution
SPADES - A Distributed Agent Simulation Environment With Software-in-the-Loop Execution
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Riley, Patrick F.
Riley, George F.
Riley, George F.
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Abstract
Simulations are used extensively for studying artificial intelligence.
However, the simulation technology in use by
and designed for the artificial intelligence community often
fails to take advantage of much of the work by the
larger simulation community to produce distributed, repeatable,
and efficient simulations. We present the new system
known as System for Parallel Agent Discrete Event Simulator,
(SPADES), which is a simulation environment for
the artificial intelligence community. SPADES focuses on
the agent as a fundamental simulation component. The
thinking rime of an agent is tracked and reflected in the
results of the agents’ actions by using a Software-in-the-Loop mechanism. SPADES supports distributed execution
of the agents across multiple systems, while at the same
time producing repeatable results regardless of network or
system load. We discuss the design of SPADES in detail and
give experimental results. SPADES is flexible enough for a
variety of application domains in the artificial intelligence research community.
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2003-12
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