Model driven development and simulations with the INGENIAS agent framework

The development of MAS can be facilitated with the introduction of simulations into the development process. The integration of simulations has been addressed by some agent oriented methodologies, generally defining mappings from the original Multi-Agent specification to concrete simulators like Repast or Sesame. This paper contributes with a deeper integration where the methodology becomes a generator of ad hoc simulators for the MAS under development. This is possible with the aid of Model Driven Engineering principles which derives executable Multi-Agent Systems automatically from a Multi-Agent System specification.