Tools for Social Simulation - What Is Missing?

Author

De Siqueira Braga, Diego ; Alves, Felipe Omena M. ; De S Menezes, Luis Carlos ; De Lima Neto, Fernando Buarque

Author_Institution

Westfalische Wilhelms-Univ. Munster, Munster, Germany

fYear

2013

fDate

8-11 Sept. 2013

Firstpage

651

Lastpage

652

Abstract

Social simulation is a recently founded research area in which there are not that many tools. Net Logo, one popular representative tool is a modeling and simulation environment that provides a basic infrastructure for programming agent based simulations. Net Logo and other tools incur in the same problem that is sometimes agent characteristics and model features are defined together originating a deep impact on models maintenance. Aiming to study some characteristics in isolation from the rest of the simulation and simplifying social simulations implementation using agents this work questions some characteristics of tools for assisting Social Simulation.

Keywords

aspect-oriented programming; multi-agent systems; social sciences computing; Net Logo; model features; programming agent based simulations; representative tool; social simulation; Computational intelligence; Computational modeling; Context modeling; Maintenance engineering; Multi-agent systems; Object oriented modeling; Programming; ABSS; AOP; NetLogo; Social simulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Intelligence and 11th Brazilian Congress on Computational Intelligence (BRICS-CCI & CBIC), 2013 BRICS Congress on

Conference_Location

Ipojuca

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BRICS-CCI-CBIC.2013.113

Filename

6855922