Towards an Ontological Foundation of Agent Based Simulation

Abstract

A simulation model is intended to capture a real-world system. Consequently, the modeling language used for making the simulation model should have a “real-world semantics” guaranteeing some kind of ontological faithfulness for the models made with it. In this paper, we propose to use ABDESO, a foundational ontology for agent-based discrete event simulation, for evaluating agent-based simulation languages.

Highlights

Events

  • Events are individuals that may be composed of temporal parts. They happen in time in the sense that they may extend in time accumulating temporal parts.
  • An event cannot exhibit change in time like a substance individual

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