Agent Based Modeling and Simulation with ActoMoS

ActoMoS is an actor-based software library for the development of agent-based models and for their simulation. This library offers software components and tools for modeling and simulating systems in different application domains. In particular, it allows the definition of agent model by reusing or extending a set of predefined agent models and supports efficient and scalable agent-based simulations involving a large number of agents. This paper, after an introduction of the actor model and implementation used by the software library, underlines the main features of the software library and presents its experimentation in some well-known domains.

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