TURTLES AS STATE MACHINES - Agent Programming in NetLogo using State Machines

Ilias Sakellariou

2012

Abstract

Agent based modelling has received significant attention in the recent years mainly due its wide adoption by scientists in a number of fields. Although agent simulation platforms have proven to be quite mature and expressive for modelling simple agents, little has been done regarding enhancing these platforms by higher level agent oriented programming facilities. This work aims at this direction, i.e. an add-on library to a well known simulation platform aiming at the specification of complex high level agents, using state machines.

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Sakellariou I. (2012). TURTLES AS STATE MACHINES - Agent Programming in NetLogo using State Machines . In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-8425-96-6, pages 375-378. DOI: 10.5220/0003753703750378


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@conference{icaart12,
author={Ilias Sakellariou},
title={TURTLES AS STATE MACHINES - Agent Programming in NetLogo using State Machines},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,},
year={2012},
pages={375-378},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003753703750378},
isbn={978-989-8425-96-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,
TI - TURTLES AS STATE MACHINES - Agent Programming in NetLogo using State Machines
SN - 978-989-8425-96-6
AU - Sakellariou I.
PY - 2012
SP - 375
EP - 378
DO - 10.5220/0003753703750378