Demo Paper: AGADE Using Communities of Agents to Provide Realistic Feedback in Business Simulations.

Farrenkopf, Thomas; Guckert, Michael; Urquhart, Neil B

Abstract

The need to provide realistic feedback against decisions made
within business games is a requirement if business games are to continue
to remain relevant in training towards increasingly complex business scenarios.
We attempt to address this problem by using software agents to
simulate individuals and to model their actions in response to business
decisions. In our initial studies we use agent technologies to simulate consumers
who will make buying decisions based on their own preferences
and those within their social network. Other applications are search for
structure in complex contexts, or verification of predicted values based
on theoretical considerations. In this demo paper we present the tool set
AGADE (Agile Agent Development Environment) which incorporates
agent based and semantic technologies to address this. It is applied to
simulate different market mechanisms in a mobile phone market.

Citation

Farrenkopf, T., Guckert, M., & Urquhart, N. B. (2015, June). Demo Paper: AGADE Using Communities of Agents to Provide Realistic Feedback in Business Simulations

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Start Date: Jun 3, 2015
• End Date: Jun 5, 2015
• Acceptance Date: Apr 16, 2015
• Publication Date: 2015
• Deposit Date: May 25, 2015
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 9086
• Pages: 271-274
• Book Title: Advances in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Sustainability: The PAAMS Collection
• ISBN: 978-3-319-18944-4
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18944-4_25
• Keywords: Multi-agent system; BDI; OWL ontology; Market simulation;Human behaviour
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/8288