Dear SIMSOC subscribers
This is a survey in the context of the SimCog project. Please do
not forward this message to other lists, since we would like to keep
it limited to a specific audience.
Since we know that you are an active researcher in the field of
agent based simulation, we would like to invite you to participate
in the SimCog survey.
The SimCog project (Simulation of Cognitive Agents) is a research
project in the area of multi-agent based simulation, whose final goal is
to develop a generic platform for multi-agent based simulation. The
project wider goals are: (i) to propose a reference model for the
requirements specification of multi-agent-based platforms, promoting
the identification of shared requirements in the scientific community,
and addressing these requirements to the development of integrated
projects; (ii) to analyse existing methods and assess methodological and
epistemological questions in the intersection of agent-based simulation,
computer science and social/natural sciences; (iii) to inform the
specification and development of the SimCog platform.
As part of the SimCog project activities, we are currently defining
a reference model for the requirements specification of an ideal type
agent-based simulation platform. In this phase we adopt two independent
activities: (i) we make a comparative analysis between different platforms
that are presently available in the research community; (ii) we prospect
and explore requirements with researchers in the field.
Therefore, we would like to invite you to participate in this survey at the
link below. We have developed a questionnaire that will help us to identify
general methodological principles to develop agent-based simulations,
and advance the analysis and prospection of technical operational and
(mostly) high-level requirements for multi-agent simulation platforms.
The survey is directed to researchers who use multi-agent-based
simulation in various scientific fields, from social and natural sciences,
to mathematical, cognitive and computer science.
The questionnaire takes approximately 20 minutes to fill in.
The final results will be available at our site for those who participate
in the survey and you name will be untold. If you provide us with your
email in the questionnaire, the results will be sent to you as well.
To fill in the questionnaire, please go to the following site:
http://www.lti.pcs.usp.br/SimCog/Doc/M1_Questionnaire.html
We thank you for you co-operation,
best regards,
Jaime Simão Sichman
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Jaime Simao SICHMAN
University of Sao Paulo, Computer Engineering Department
Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, tv. 3, 158
05508-900 Sao Paulo SP Brazil
voice: +55 11 30915397 fax: +55 11 30915294
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