DOI: 10.7763/IJCTE.2014.V6.903
Simulation of an Organization of Spatial Intelligent Agents in the Visual C#.NET Framework
Abstract—Problem: This paper investigates the simulation of
a community of spatial intelligent agents, an important issue for
the implementation and evaluation of distributed algorithms.
The research question is how to simulate this organization using
Visual C#.NET.
Objective: This paper intends to use the C# programming
language to develop a simulator. In a simulated environment, a
social agent needs to communicate with other agents and
respond to received messages.
Method: Our approach is to integrate the thread and
delegate methods provided by the .NET framework. We
enhance the architecture of a spatial intelligent agent in order to
embed several in a simulated society. A basic C# program is
presented to demonstrate how to implement a contract net
protocol (CNP) among three simple agents.
Results: Two results were achieved: 1) the responses and
actions of three agents during a simulated CNP and 2) a
simulated environment that contains distributed spatial
intelligent agents that can interact with each other and a human
user.
Conclusion: The proposed methodology and presented code
provide a flexible and efficient framework for C# developers to
develop, simulate, and evaluate a society of advanced software
agents using the .NET platform.
Index Terms—simulator, C#.NET, multi-agent systems,
community/society, software agents, development,
communication, code, message, GIS.
R. Nourjou is with the Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University,
Japan (e-mail: nourjour@imdr.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp).
M. Hatayama is with the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI),
Kyoto University, Japan (e-mail: hatayama@imdr.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp).
Cite:Reza Nourjou and Michinori Hatayama, "Simulation of an Organization of Spatial Intelligent Agents in the Visual C#.NET Framework," International Journal of Computer Theory and Engineering vol. 6, no. 5, pp. 426-431, 2014.