Archive for November 2nd, 2009

Scenario Description for Multi-Agent Simulation

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

Difficulty of writing scenarios causes a serious problem.

In order to remove this problem and to help scenario writers with multi- agent simulations, we set up the following three research objectives.

  • Develop scenario description languages:
    We need a general purpose scenario description language to describe social interaction between humans and agents that employs the vocabulary used in the application domain. We also need to provide a domain dependent language to capture the patterns of interaction observed in the application domain.
  • Establish a scenario description process:
    Unlike computer programming, no specification is given in advance for a scenario description. We need to establish a process for scenario development that determines vocabulary, describes scenarios, extracts interaction patterns, and integrates real world observations with virtual world simulations.
  • Validate technologies using real-world problems:
    We need to validate the scenario description languages and scenario description process by examining how well the scenario- based simulation accurately reproduces real life situations.

Extracted from Scenario Description for Multi-Agent Simulation by Yohei Murakami, Toru Ishida, Tomoyuki Kawasoe and Reiko Hishiyama