The Design And Construction Of The Multi-Agent Based Business Simulation Game System

Recently, with the rapid development of the modern information/computer technology as well as the popular use of the Internet, Business Simulation (BS hereafter) starts to be introduced into the economic and management courses and the training for the employees, thus this area has got the speedy progress, especially the research and development of the system of Business simulation game provide us a new teaching idea, also a new practice tool.Meanwhile, the proposal and development of the theory of Complex Adaptive System (CAS hereafter) provide a new direction for the economic management theory research. Within the area of the computer system modelling, the research on the Multi-agent theory, the maturity of the Agent oriented software developing method as well as the rich modelling platforms will definitely offer new ways and tools for the developing of the BS game system (BSG hereafter).The paper describes the concept of the BS, history and the major models, also compares and anylizes a number of typical BSG, summarizes the critical factors that should be considered in the modelling of BSG. Furthermore, it expatiates the foundamental theory of CAS and its application in the modern economic management; addresses the concepts of the economic emulation in Agent based computional Economics; also examines the feasibility of introducing the Multi-agent based system analysis and design method into BSG modelling.Based on this, the author designs a Multi-agent based BSG through research on the design factors, modelling methods and the implementation procedures of developing BSG.BSG designed here is based on GMC; the prototype has been divided into internal process simulation and the enterprises competion simulation according to the system requierments and the modelling.The author adopts the agent oriented analysis method-Mase and AgentTool to finishe the enterprise internal purchase, manufacture and decision-making process modelling. In the meantime, we further improve the modelling of the business competion framework in the BSG in terms of the competion market environment design, marketing factor design, the comsumer behavior design as well as the comsumer agent modelling. We also use Anylogic to simulate the business competion, partly achieve the business competion simulation.