@techreport{a4cf0787eab94050a0b97ae3c645ac8a,
title = "A Simulation Framework for Heterogeneous Agents",
abstract = "We introduce a generic simulation framework suitable for agent-based simulations featuring the support of heterogeneous agents, hierarchical scheduling and flexible specification of design parameters. One key aspect of this framework is the design specification: we use an XML-based format which is simple-structured yet still enables the design of flexible models. Another issue in agent-based simulations, especially when ready-made components are used, is the heterogeneity arising from both the agents' implementations and the underlying platforms. To tackle these kind of obstacles, we introduce a wrapper technique for mapping the functionality of agents living in an interpreter-based environment to a standardized JAVA interface, thus facilitating the task for any control mechanism (like a simulation manager) because it has to handle only one set of commands for all agents involved. Again, this mapping is made by an XML-based definition format. We demonstrate the technique by applying it to a simple sample simulation of two mass marketing firms operating in an artificial consumer environment.",
author = "David Meyer and Christian Buchta and Alexandros Karatzoglou and Friedrich Leisch and Kurt Hornik",
year = "2002",
doi = "10.57938/a4cf0787-eab9-4050-a0b9-7ae3c645ac8a",
language = "English",
series = "Report Series SFB {"}Adaptive Information Systems and Modelling in Economics and Management Science{"}",
number = "74",
publisher = "SFB Adaptive Information Systems and Modelling in Economics and Management Science, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business",
edition = "October 2002",
type = "WorkingPaper",
institution = "SFB Adaptive Information Systems and Modelling in Economics and Management Science, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business",
}