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: Farm, Simulation Environments
Publication: Advances in Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems, pp. 220 - 237
Editor: Carlos Lucena, Alessandro Garcia, Alexander Romanovsky, Jaelson Castro and Paulo Alencar
Publisher: Springer-Verlag, Berlin
Date: February 2004
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Reference: Horling, Bryan; Mailler, Roger; and Lesser, Victor. Farm: A Scalable Environment for Multi-Agent Development and Evaluation. Advances in Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems, Carlos Lucena, Alessandro Garcia, Alexander Romanovsky, Jaelson Castro and Paulo Alencar, ed., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 220-237. February 2004.
bibtex: 
@incollection{Horling-349,
  author    = "Bryan Horling and Roger Mailler and Victor Lesser",
  title     = "{Farm: A Scalable Environment for Multi-Agent
               Development and Evaluation}",
  booktitle = "Advances in Software Engineering for Multi-Agent
               Systems",
  editor    = "Alessandro Garcia Carlos Lucena and Jaelson Castro Alexander Romanovsky and Paulo Alencar",
  publisher = "Springer-Verlag, Berlin",
  pages     = "220-237",
  month     = "February",
  year      = "2004",
  url       = "http://mas.cs.umass.edu/paper/349",
}