GALATEA: A multi-agent, simulation platform

Abstract

. This paper presents a new simulation platform: GALATEA, which is offered as a language to model multi-agent systems to be simulated in a DEVS, multi-agent platform. GALATEA is the product of two lines of research: simulation languages based on Zeigler's theory of simulation[Zeigler: 1976,Zeigler: 1990] and logic-based agents[Davila: 1997]. There is in GALATEA a proposal to integrate, in the same simulation platform, conceptual and concrete tools for multi-agent, distributed, interactive, continuous and discrete event simulation. It is also GALATEA a direct descendent of GLIDER[Domingo et al: 1985,Domingo: 1988], a DEVS-based simulation language which incorporated tools for continuous modelling as well. In GALATEA, GLIDER is combined with a family of logic programming languages specifically designed to model agents[Davila: 1997]. 1