Re: simpleExperBug crashed ...

[Mr X.Y.Huang]

Dear members of the swarm support,
I just joined your team and would like to get into your discussion 
about swarm multiagent language. 
My background is multiagent negotiation in automatic vehicle 
scheduling (that was my Ph.D project). Now I was employed by Center 
for Transport Studies, Imperial College, London, UK. The current 
project aims at simulating travellers' behaviour in the traffic 
network where information systems are provided. I am thinking of 
implementing such a simulation system as a multiagent system where an 
agent could be a traveller or a group of homogeneous travellers. 
These agents may interact each other.  One of the problems I face is 
what computing language I should choose. I think multiagent languages 
should be very good candidates. However, my knowledge about 
multiagent languages is very shallow. Does any of the members know 
how many multiagent languages (such as Swarm) there exist? I want to 
do a survey, and probably decide to choose one of them as my 
implementation language. 
In particular, most of you may already have started to use Swarm in 
your application, so you may have very good experiences about this 
language. Could anyone tell me about your opinions about it (is it 
easy to be mastered?  is it easy to set the software in your 
computer? what is the most serious problem(s) you met?, etc.).  My 
computer is a pentium 150 with a sizable memory space and window 95 
operation system. Is this good enough to down load Swarm and use it?

Ok, I think I have raised too many questions. I have to stop and wait 
for your response.
Many thanks!

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Xueyue Huang
Center For Transport Studies
Imperial College
London SW7 2BU
Tel: (+44) 171 594 6037
Fax: (+44) 171 594 6102

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