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A Multi-environment Multi-agent Simulation Framework for Self-organizing Systems

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This paper introduces a multi-environment simulation framework for building self-organizing multi-agent systems. From an engineering point of view, the multi-environments approach brings the necessary modularity and separation of concerns to build self-organizing multi-agent systems that address hierarchy, interoperability and multi-aspects problems and domains. Our framework provides higher abstractions and components to support the development of self-organizing systems with multiple environments, which can be situated or not. Furthermore, the framework provides a coordination component and self-organizing mechanisms to be instantiated and flexibility to evolve the framework with more complex ones.

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    Maíra Athanázio de Cerqueira Gatti & Carlos José Pereira de Lucena

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de Cerqueira Gatti, M.A., de Lucena, C.J.P. (2010). A Multi-environment Multi-agent Simulation Framework for Self-organizing Systems. In: Di Tosto, G., Van Dyke Parunak, H. (eds) Multi-Agent-Based Simulation X. MABS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5683. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13553-8_6

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