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Modeling a Virtual Food Court Using DECAF

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Multi-Agent-Based Simulation (MABS 2000)

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Since voluntary organizational decisions are most likely made by self-interested parties, organizational decisions in an economic market are subject to explanation by (at least) two different fields of study: organizational theory and microeconomics. This paper describes initial work on economic modeling, including the modeling of voluntary organizational contracts, of a set of business entities set in the market context of the food court at an upscale suburban mall, the Virtual Food Court. DECAF is an multi-agent toolkit that provides this effort with a GUI to easily establish the control mechanisms needed to express exchanges between participants and the operatingsy stem features to perform the message sendinga nd receivingtha t models the actual transactions. DECAF provides high-level language support and pre-built middle-agents for buildingm ulti-agent systems. This approach helps researchers or students get to the “interesting” parts of a simulation more quickly.

This work was supported by the National Science Foundation under grant IIS-9733004.

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  1. Computer and Information Sciences Department, University of Delaware, 19716, Newark, DE

    Foster McGeary & Keith Decker

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  1. Centre for Policy Modelling, Manchester Metropolitan University, Aytoun Building, M1 3GH, Manchester, UK

    Scott Moss

  2. Department of Software Engineering and Computer Science, University of Karlskrona/Ronneby, 372 25, Ronneby, Sweden

    Paul Davidsson

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McGeary, F., Decker, K. (2000). Modeling a Virtual Food Court Using DECAF. In: Moss, S., Davidsson, P. (eds) Multi-Agent-Based Simulation. MABS 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1979. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44561-7_5

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