Title
Demo Paper: AGADE - Scalability of Ontology Based Agent Simulations.
Abstract
Simulations of real world scenarios often require considerably large numbers of agents. With increasing level of detail and resolution in the underlying models machine limitations both in the aspect of memory and computing power are reached. Even more when additional features like reasoning mechanisms of semantic technologies are used as in the AGADE framework where we have extended the principal BDI paradigm with an interface to OWL ontologies. We have observed that the extensive use of ontologies results in high memory consumption due to the large number of String objects used in the reasoning process and caching mechanisms of the OWL API. We address this issue by running simulations in a highly distributed environment. In this paper we demonstrate how we enabled AGADE to be run in such an environment and the necessary architectural modifications. Furthermore, we discuss the potential size of simulations that can be run in such a setting.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1007/978-3-319-39324-7_25
ADVANCES IN PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF SCALABLE MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS: THE PAAMS COLLECTION
Keywords
Field
DocType
Multi-agent system,BDI,OWL ontology,Market simulation,Distributed simulation
Ontology (information science),Ontology,Semantic technology,Distributed Computing Environment,Level of detail,High memory,Computer science,Theoretical computer science,Distributed computing,Scalability
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
9662
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
2
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Thomas Farrenkopf155.25
Michael Guckert2176.97
neil b urquhart38314.70
S. Wells4142.41