Multi Agent Simulation

[Kanagaraj Krishna]

Hi,
    I'm Kanagaraj Krishna from Malaysia. I'm currently doing my
 master's research in Computer Science. My area of interest is
 into trust in Multi Agent environment.

    Currently looking into designing a new trust management model
 for trading in multi agent environment combining objective trust
 (experience based trust), subjective trust (recommendation based
 trust) in distributed environment and timestamp logging. Each
 agent/multi agent system will have their own database to keep
 their trust ratings in this management model.

    I'm planning to do a simulation too, in order to test and
 analyze the behaviour of the new model. For this I want to
 analyse and compare existing simulation (platform/tool) and
 justify picking a suitable (multi agent environment where agents
 and multi agent system exist) one for my project. I'm also
 researching on the type of test and parameters for the analysis.
 I need expertise advise on this area.

 -I read about SWARM a bit. Would itbe suitable for my purpose? Is 
  there any papers or work comparing simulation tools such as 
  ECHO,SWARM,BRAHMS and etc,because I need to justify my decision. 

 -I decided to do a simulation rather than developing a prototype
  because it involves multi agent environment involving a lot of user
  sent agents and multi agent systems which is quite a tough
  task for the purpose of this research. Am i right in making this
  decision. Is there a way (papers)of strongly justifying my
  decision.

 -Can you recommend papers or sources that can help me in doing the
  needed comparison simulation platform&tool.

 -Can you also comment on my proposed model although the explaination
  above is too brief.

 Sorry for the inconvenience caused. Thanks

 Kana



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