Implementing a multi-agent system with Ada'95: A case study of a stock market

In this paper we will prove the suitability of the programming language Ada'95 for multi-agent system (MAS) simulation and agent oriented programming. Agent oriented programming relies on the assumption, that a complex distributed software system can be programmed as a set of communicating, interacting, knowledge based entities called (software) agents. If one defines roughly an agent as an object combination of mental state to perceive its environment, achieve some goals, a knowledge base to hold its memory and an interfacing communication with other entities then ada'95 fits well for all the above properties, through it's features programming like concurrency, parallelism and active objects. For the case study, we tested our MAS design to model a financial market behavior. The results obtained in the experimental part lead to some validation keys, like the agent's performance in increasing their own wealth and their adapted behavior throughout the evolving market.