Eclipse Agent Modeling Platform

Eclipse AMP provides extensible frameworks and exemplary tools for representing, editing, generating, executing and visualizing agent models.

Agent models share characteristics with object models, but are:

• Spatial: Models have explicit environment(s) in which agents interact. (An environment need not be a physical landscape; other examples of spatial relationships include social networks or positions within a logic system.)
• Temporal: Models change over discrete units of time.
• Autonomous: Agent behaviors are activated independently from other object requests.
• Heterogenous: Agents may share behavior definitions but have apparent and distinct states and behaviors.
• Collective: Models contain large communities of agents which exhibit collaborative and competitive behaviors.
• Emergent: Agents have collective macro-behaviors that are non-obvious from agent micro-specifications.