ACTIVE: agile coordinator testbed integrated virtual environment

This paper describes the specification, design and development of ACTIVE, a testbed for the testing and simulation of large-scale agent-based systems. ACTIVE is being developed as part of DARPA's Coordinators program. The goal of the ACTIVE testbed is to support the simulation of large collections of distributed cooperating agents in solving constrained scheduling problems. Categories and Subject Descriptors I.2.11 {Artificial Intelligence}:Distributed Artificial Intelligence. I.2.5 {Artificial Intelligence}:Programming Languages and Software. I.2.8 {Artificial Intelligence}:Problem Solving, Control Methods and Search. General Terms Algorithms, Measurement. Performance. Design, Reliability, Experimentation, Languages, and Verification. Keywords Agent testbed, Scalable testbed, Test Harness, CTAEMS, GMASS.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: ATAL
• Authors: G. Emami, J. Cheng, D. Cornwell, M. Feldhousen, C. Long, V. Malhotra, I. Starnes, Larry Kerschberg, Alexander Brodsky, X. Zhang
• Keywords: ATAL 2006, DARPA's Coordinators Program, Intelligent Agents, Large-scale Agent-based Systems, Testbed