AgentSheets

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AgentSheets

• Group 1
• Shen, Zhijian
• Lee, Zhi Quan
• Xiang, Shiqiang
• Tran, Quoc Huy
• Butler, Daniel
• Lee, Jae Hyek
• Young, Sean Isaac

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What is AgentSheets?

• A generic simulation environment
• Uses interacting autonomous agents
• Location of agents constrained to a grid
• Released as a commercial product in 1996
• Originally agents programmed using Common LISP
  now uses Visual AgenTalk

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AgentSheets in practice
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Maxis SimCity
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AgentSheets

• Grid based
• Agents programmed with a visual language
• Visual AgenTalk
• Agents only interact explicitly with each other
  removing hidden dependencies
• Some level of viscosity but ultimately determined
  by system being implemented
• With training it is possible for even
  inexperienced users to produce non-trivial models