Publication - Farm: A Scalable Environment for Multi-Agent Development and Evaluation

Authors: Horling, Bryan; Mailler, Roger; and Lesser, Victor
Title: Farm: A Scalable Environment for Multi-Agent Development and Evaluation
Abstract: In this paper we introduce Farm, a distributed simulation environment for simulating large-scale multi-agent systems. Farm uses a component-based architecture, allowing the researcher to easily modify and augment the simulation, as well as distribute the various pieces to spread the computational load and improve running time. Technical details of Farms architecture are described, along with discussion of the rational behind this design. Performance graphs are provided, along with a brief discussion of the environments currently being modeled with Farm.
Keywords: ANTs, Farm, Real Time, Simulation Environments
Publication: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems (SELMAS 2003), pp. 171 - 177
Location: Portland, Oregon
Date: May 2003
Sources: PS: /Documents/bhorling/03-farm.ps
PDF: /Documents/03-farm.pdf
Reference: Horling, Bryan; Mailler, Roger; and Lesser, Victor. Farm: A Scalable Environment for Multi-Agent Development and Evaluation. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems (SELMAS 2003), pp. 171-177. May 2003.
bibtex: 
@article{Horling-243,
  author    = "Bryan Horling and Roger Mailler and Victor Lesser",
  title     = "{Farm: A Scalable Environment for Multi-Agent
               Development and Evaluation}",
  journal   = "Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on
               Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent
               Systems (SELMAS 2003)",
  pages     = "171-177",
  month     = "May",
  year      = "2003",
  address   = "Portland, Oregon",
  url       = "http://mas.cs.umass.edu/paper/243",
}