IMAGINARY OR ACTUAL ARTIFICIAL WORLDS USING A NEW TOOL IN THE ABM PERSPECTIVE
Pietro Terna · 2009
original Swarm protocol, choosing Python as a simultaneously simple and complete object-oriented framework. With SLAPP we develop two test models in the Agent-Based Models (ABM) perspective, building both an artificial world related to an imaginary situation with stylized chameleons and an artificial world related to the actual important issue of interbank payment and liquidity. 1 From a “classical ” protocol to a new tool 1.1. The Swarm protocol The Swarm protocol dates from the mid-1990s, so in some way it is a ”classical” reference in the relatively young world of the agent-based simulation, mainly for social sciences. The Swarm project (www.swarm.org), born at Santa Fe Institute, has been developed with an emphasis on three key points [1]: (i) Swarm defines a structure for simulations, a framework within which models are built; (ii) the core commitment is to a discrete-event simulation of multiple agents using an object-oriented representation; (iii) to these basic choices Swarm adds the concept of the "swarm, " a collection of agents with a schedule of activity.