Modeling Mobile Agents

Agent oriented software implies the realization of software components which are mobile autonomous and solve problems by creating new software compo nents during run time moving between locations ini tiating or joining groups of other software components Modeling and simulating those multiagent systems re quires speci c mechanisms for variable structure mod eling JAMES a Java Based Agent Modeling Environ ment for Simulation realizes variable structure models including mobility from the perspective of single au tonomous agents JAMES itself is based on parallel DEVS and adopts its abstract simulator model Sim ulation takes place as a sending of messages between concurrently active and distributed entities which re ect the model s current structure Thus modeling and simulation are coined equally by an agent based perspective