Study on Integrated Usage of Agent-based Modeling and Simulation and Discrete Event Simulation
Dai Jin-hai · Jisuanji fangzhen · 2006
Agent-based Modeling and Simulation (ABMS) and Discrete Event Simulation (DES) are all advanced modeling and simulation paradigms, and they have abilities for analysis of the problems about complex systems. ABMS follows the object-oriented ideas, so it can work well in the micro aspect of systems; and DES adopts progress-oriented ideas, so it can work well in the macro aspect. Therefore, they can amend each other on the functions. By analyzing them in details, the idea was proposed to integrate them for using, which extends the structure of event list in DES, brings out a full architecture for integrated usage of ABMS and DES, and realizes a software platform, absimlib, to support the realization of the architecture. All the efforts bring into playing the advantages of the two simulation paradigms, avoid the shortages incurred by using one of them alone, and increase the abilities for studying on complex systems. Furthermore, the architecture is simple, and easy to realize and extend to distributed environments. At last, an air-defense system was given out to show the effectiveness of the idea as an example.