A MODEL-DRIVEN ARCHITECTURE APPROACH FOR AGENT-BASED MODELING AND SIMULATION

It is widely agreed that a widespread adoption of the Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation (ABMS) approach by experts of typical ABMS domains demands for well-defined processes, modeling techniques and tools able to fully support them in modeling and simulating complex systems. To this end, the paper proposes a Model-Driven process which conforms to the OMG Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) and enables the definition of Platform-Independent simulation Models from which Platform-Dependent simulation Models and the related code can be automatically obtained with significantly reduced programming and implementation efforts.