GEAMAS V2.0: an object oriented platform for complex systems simulations

Author

Soulie, JC ; Marcenac, P. ; Calderoni, S. ; Courdier, R.

Author_Institution

IREMIA, Univ. de la Reunion, Saint Denis, France

fYear

1998

fDate

3-7 Aug 1998

Firstpage

230

Lastpage

242

Abstract

This paper presents the object oriented design and implementation of GEAMAS V2.0, a toolkit for virtual simulations of complex systems. GEAMAS V2.0 is structured in three modules: the kernel, the generation environment and the simulation environment. The kernel implements an object model for agents and provides generic classes. The generation environment allows the graphical design of applications. The simulation environment enables the observation of the simulation´s evolution via graphical user interface tools. The implementation uses Java 1.1. We applied GEAMAS V2.0 to the sand-pile automaton problem. This reference application, which is easily modeled with GEAMAS V2.0, provides a first validation of our system architecture and simulation mechanism

Keywords

digital simulation; object-oriented programming; systems analysis; virtual reality; GEAMAS V2.0; complex systems simulations; generation environment; generic architecture; graphical user interface tools; kernel; multi-agent simulation; object model; object oriented design; object oriented platform; sand-pile automaton problem; simulation environment; simulation mechanism; system architecture; toolkit; virtual simulations; Application software; Automata; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Graphical user interfaces; Java; Kernel; Object oriented modeling; Predictive models; Uniform resource locators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Technology of Object-Oriented Languages, 1998. TOOLS 26. Proceedings

Conference_Location

Santa Barbara, CA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8482-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TOOLS.1998.711016

Filename

711016