[Swarm-Modelling] Something New.. ?

[Simon Bland]

Hiyas,

I sent this to the tech list, but haven't had any response, so I'm 
asking again here, I hope that's ok.

I'm a Computer Science student at the University of Wollongong
(Australia), and I'm looking at doing an honours project that (at this
stage) would be based on creating a module for Swarm.

The project is basically to create an environment for doing simulations
using agents that are already created and don't meet any real standard
or specification, and aren't required to be related in their
implementation (except in that they use standard I/O in the *NIX sense
for control/output).

What I'm currently looking at doing is to create a Swarm module that
would act as an interpretation layer between a legacy agent and Swarm's
agent API.

I've taken a look around the SwarmWiki, and can't find anything that
would suggest this area has already been explored, and from what I can
tell there aren't any existing environments that provide an interface
for legacy agents. Is anyone aware of anything that does operate in such
a way?

Do people feel that Swarm would be an appropriate system to develop a
legacy agent module for? If not, do you know of a system that would be
more appropriate to the task?

Any and all comments and feedback appreciated.

Regards,
Simon Bland.





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