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Organizational and Holonic Modelling of a Simulated and Synthetic Spatial Environment

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Agent Environments for Multi-Agent Systems IV

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Multiagent-based simulations enable us to validate different use-case scenarios in a lot of application domains. The idea is to develop a realistic virtual environment to test particular domain-specific procedures. This paper presents a holonic model — hierarchy of agents — of a simulated physical environment for the simulation of crowds in virtual 3D buildings. The major contributions of this paper are the agentization of the environment model to support multilevel simulation, and the definition of energy-based indicators to control the execution of the model. Finally, the application of the model inside an airport terminal is presented. It permits to validate the principles of the models and the corresponding computational gains.

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Notes

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    Holon: an agent composed of agents, which can be seen as an atomic entity from its outside, and an entity composed by sub-holons from its inside, at the same time.

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    The CRIO metamodel and the holonic framework are outside the scope of this paper. See http://www.aspecs.org or [8] for details.

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    Note that a holon may represent either an atomic agent or a composed agent [41].

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    Holarchy: a hierarchy of holons that may intersect other holarchies by sharing holons together.

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    http://www.sarl.io.

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    http://www.sarl.io.

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    http://www.janusproject.io.

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The airport screenshots were produced, in conjunction with the platform Janus (http://www.janusproject.io), by the commercial tool Simulate of the Voxelia  SAS (http://www.voxelia.com) company, France. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors, and should not be interpreted as representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the Voxelia SAS.

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Galland, S., Gaud, N. (2015). Organizational and Holonic Modelling of a Simulated and Synthetic Spatial Environment. In: Weyns, D., Michel, F. (eds) Agent Environments for Multi-Agent Systems IV. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9068. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23850-0_10

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