Multi-Agent Oriented Distributed Simulation Platform

Nowadays computer simulation has already become an indispensible means in a variety of development of complex system developments. And the Multi-Agent oriented modeling and simulation technology is one of the most dynamic and influential methods. In order to support multi-agent oriented simulation, a distributed platform is designed and developed to support the whole process that includes modeling, deployment and simulation. This platform can support uses to define the multi-agent models in a visual way and submit it as a sharable simulation model (also called general simulation solution), which can be instantiated as simulation cases by users. This platform also supports multiple simulation cases run concurrently.From the view of product, this platform realized the"universal, flexible and simple"simulation. And the graphical interface will guide the professional modelers step by step, to design and produce their general agent models. As the agent instances are running in a distributed environment and they realized the services negotiations between each other, so that these communications between the agents and the interactive processes are the realistic portrayal of the reality.In this paper, the system structures together with the mechanisms behind the platform are introduced. Experiments have showed that users can use this distributed simulation platform to configure simulation scenarios conveniently, then generating specific simulation cases. By comparing the performances of distributed environment and single-machine environment, the correctness and efficiency of the simulation platform are proved.