Discrete event simulation and social science: The XeriScape artificial society

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作者：

Zaft, GC ^{[1
]}

Zeigler, BP ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] NewMon, Tucson, AZ 85711 USA

来源：

6TH WORLD MULTICONFERENCE ON SYSTEMICS, CYBERNETICS AND INFORMATICS, VOL VI, PROCEEDINGS: INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS AND ENGINEERING I | 2002年

关键词：

artificial society; discrete event simulation; DEVS; !text type='Java']Java[!/text; agent based simulation;

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中图分类号：

TP [自动化技术、计算机技术];

学科分类号：

0812 ;

摘要：

Social scientists use artificial society simulations to explore complex behaviors that result from the interaction of agents. One such artificial society is Epstein and Axtell's Sugarscape simulation. In Sugarscape, agents are born, eat, 'sugar', travel, reproduce, and die in a torus-shaped virtual world. Sugarscape uses simple rules to create a virtual society where agent interactions aggregate to form surprisingly complicated social structures. This paper presents XeriScape, a Sugarscape-style artificial society based on the Discrete Event System Specification (DEVS) formalism implementation in the Java language (DEVS-Java). DEVS-Java is a powerful tool that makes XeriScape a more efficient, flexible, and extensible artificial society simulation than Sugarscape. A number of experiments illustrate the capabilities and advantages of the DEVS-Java environment for artificial societies and other social science applications.

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