The Multi-Agent Simulation Environment SeSAm

1. Motivation The SeSAm (Shell for Simulated Agent Systems) provides a generic environment for modeling and experimenting with agent-based systems. We specially focused on providing a framework for the easy construction of complex models. Although the idea of a domain-independent multi-agent simulation environment is not new, none of the existing environments fulfills the claim of usage without direct programming. Despite of providing a powerful general architecture (e.g. SWARM [4]) or a rather focused one (e.g. EthnoModellingFrame [2]) in many simulation environments the user has to program using a language that provides some additional specialized concepts or classes, but still is based on the syntax of for example C++. SeSAm on the other side keeps the balance between generality and easy usage.