Evaluating JACK Sim for Agent-Based Modelling of Pedestrians

Author

Ronald, Nicole ; Sterling, Leon ; Kirley, Michael

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Software Eng., Univ. of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC

fYear

2006

fDate

18-22 Dec. 2006

Firstpage

81

Lastpage

87

Abstract

In this paper, we describe the use of an agent-based simulation language, JACK Sim. JACK Sim is one of several add-ons for the agent language JACK, which is based on the belief-desire-intention architecture. The implementation of a prototype model of pedestrian way finding behaviour is described and the prototype is then evaluated using software engineering quality principles. A recent addition to the simulation language world, JACK Sim solves several problems encountered with using JACK alone for certain simulations and provides a solid framework for creating discrete-event simulations with BDI agent technology.

Keywords

discrete event simulation; simulation languages; software agents; software quality; traffic engineering computing; BDI agent technology; JACK Sim agent-based simulation language; agent-based pedestrian modelling; belief-desire-intention architecture; discrete-event simulation; pedestrian way finding behaviour; software engineering quality principle; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Discrete event simulation; Economic forecasting; Java; Object oriented modeling; Packaging; Software engineering; Software prototyping; Solid modeling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Agent Technology, 2006. IAT '06. IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2748-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IAT.2006.65

Filename

4052902