Authors:
Antoine Spicher
1
;
Nazim Fatès
2
and
Olivier Simonin
2
Affiliations:
1
LACL - Université Paris 12, France
;
2
LORIA - INRIA Nancy Grand Est, France
Keyword(s):
Reactive multi-agent systems, Cellular automata, Influence-reaction model, Diffusion-limited aggregation.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Agent Models and Architectures
;
Agents
;
Artificial Intelligence
;
Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems
;
Bioinformatics
;
Biomedical Engineering
;
Distributed and Mobile Software Systems
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Methodologies and Technologies
;
Multi-Agent Systems
;
Operational Research
;
Programming Environments and Languages
;
Simulation
;
Software Engineering
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
This paper deals with the synchronous implementation of situated Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) in order to have no execution bias and to allow their programming on massively parallel computing devices. For this purpose we investigate the translation of discrete MAS into Cellular Automata (CA). Contrarily to the sequential scheduling generally used in MAS simulations, CA are a model for massively parallel computing where the updating of the components is synchronous. However, CA expressiveness is limited and not always adapted to build models where independent entities move and act on neighbor cells. After illustrating these issues on a simple example, we propose a generic method to translate a discrete MAS into a CA, called a transactional CA. Our approach consists in using the influence-reaction model to perform this translation.