SWAGES - An Extendable Distributed Experimentation System for Large-Scale Agent-Based Alife Simulations

摘要

We introduce SWAGES, a distributed agent-based Alife simulation and experimentation environment that uses automatic dynamic parallelization and distribution of simulations in heterogeneous computing environments to minimize simulation times. SWAGES allows for multi-language agent definitions, uses a general plug-in architecture for external physical and graphical engines to augment the integrated SimWorld simulation environment, and includes extensive data collection and analysis mechanisms, including filters and scripts for external statistics and visualization tools. Moreover, it provides a very flexible experiment scheduler with a simple, web-based interface and automatic fault detection and error recovery mechanisms for running large-scale simulation experiments.