The Eclipse Agent Modeling Platform: Complexity, Cooperation and Community

The Eclipse Agent Modeling Platform: Complexity, Cooperation and Community

Miles T. Parker, Metascape, LLC

miles@metascapeabm.com

The Agent Modeling Platform (AMP) has been accepted as an Eclipse Incubation project and will make its debut at Swarmfest 2009. The ABM software community could be a case study for group complexity -- competing needs and organization priorities have created a diverse, creative but bewildering and arguably wasteful array of tools. MetaABM was introduced at Swarmfest 2008 as model-driven approach to bridge the gap between complexity and commonality. But I’m convinced that the realization of that vision demands a run-time technology to match design-time capabilities. By utilizing the powerful and flexible Eclipse infrastructure we now have the capability to support independent modeling engines, visualization, data and other tools within a shared high-quality environment. Escape is a component of AMP that provides an Eclipse enabled version of Ascape. In this session we’ll focus on the user benefits of AMP by demonstrating Escape and other tools within the AMP environment.