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Towards Validation of Specifications by Simulation

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Infrastructure for Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Scalable Multi-Agent Systems (AGENTS 2000)

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The aim is to study the behaviour (in terms of utility) of a large number of autonomous agents under various environmental situations. Our experimental framework is an extension of the Swarm simulator with an array of intelligent agents developed in C++ and Prolog.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Baritiu 28, RO-3400, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

    Ioan Alfred Letia, Florin Crariun & Zoltan Köpe

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Maine, 228 Neville Hall, Orono, ME, 04469-5752, USA

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  2. Department of Computer Science, Cardiff University, Queen’s Building, Newport Road, Cardiff, CF24 3XF, Wales, UK

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Letia, I.A., Crariun, F., Köpe, Z. (2001). Towards Validation of Specifications by Simulation. In: Wagner, T., Rana, O.F. (eds) Infrastructure for Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Scalable Multi-Agent Systems. AGENTS 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1887. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-47772-1_29

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