agent-based; simulation

This paper describes possibilities of the BETA language and simulation class BetaSIMULATION essentially enlarging the existing BetaSIM discrete event simulation framework (Kreutzer and Osterbye 1998), (Osterbye and Kreutzer 1999), which enables the BETA language to be used as an agent based simulation language. The BetaSIM framework was designed to support queuing scenarios based on processes, in which a special attention is paid to providing abstractions that allow to specify synchronization between processes in a simulation model. The concepts used in BetaSIMULATION are inherited from Simula and enable thus extension of the original BetaSIM framework towards agent based simulation. Specific intention of BetaSIMULATION is to exploit BetaSIM for more complex simulation tasks such as reflective simulation, described in (Kindler et al. 2003), (Kindler at al. 2004), using in this way many BETA?s unique features.

This paper describes possibilities of the BETA language and simulation class BetaSIMULATION essentially enlarging the existing BetaSIM discrete event simulation framework (Kreutzer and Osterbye 1998), (Osterbye and Kreutzer 1999), which enables the BETA language to be used as an agent based simulation language. The BetaSIM framework was designed to support queuing scenarios based on processes, in which a special attention is paid to providing abstractions that allow to specify synchronization between processes in a simulation model. The concepts used in BetaSIMULATION are inherited from Simula and enable thus extension of the original BetaSIM framework towards agent based simulation. Specific intention of BetaSIMULATION is to exploit BetaSIM for more complex simulation tasks such as reflective simulation, described in (Kindler et al. 2003), (Kindler at al. 2004), using in this way many BETA?s unique features.