Densifying the sparse cloud SimSaaS: The need of a synergy among agent-directed simulation, SimSaaS and HLA

Modelling & Simulation (M&S) is broadly used in real scenarios where making physical modifications could be highly expensive. With the so-called Simulation Software-as-a-Service (SimSaaS), researchers could take advantage of the huge amount of resource that cloud computing provides. Even so, studying and analysing a problem through simulation may need several simulation tools, hence raising interoperability issues. Having this in mind, IEEE developed a standard for interoperability among simulators named High Level Architecture (HLA). Moreover, the multi-agent system approach has become recognised as a convenient approach for modelling and simulating complex systems. Despite all the recent works and acceptance of these technologies, there is still a great lack of work regarding synergies among them. This paper shows by means of a literature review this lack of work or, in other words, the sparse Cloud SimSaaS. The literature review and the resulting taxonomy are the main contributions of this paper, as they provide a research agenda illustrating future research opportunities and trends

MAlSim Deployment

This report describes the deployment issues related to MAlSim - Mobile Agent Malware Simulator - a mobile agent framework which aims at simulation of malware - malicious software that run on a computer and make the system behaving in a way wanted by an attacker. MAlSim was introduced in our previous report where we described its composition and functions, and provided the details of the simulation environment in which MAlSim is deployed and the auxiliary parts which support the experiments performed with MAlSim. In this report we are providing more technical details related to the installation and use of the framework.JRC.G.6-Sensors, radar technologies and cybersecurit

Flexible Decision Control in an Autonomous Trading Agent

An autonomous trading agent is a complex piece of software that must operate in a competitive economic environment and support a research agenda. We describe the structure of decision processes in the MinneTAC trading agent, focusing on the use of evaluators – configurable, composable modules for data analysis and prediction that are chained together at runtime to support agent decision-making. Through a set of examples, we show how this structure supports sales and procurement decisions, and how those decision processes can be modified in useful ways by changing evaluator configurations. To put this work in context, we also report on results of an informal survey of agent design approaches among the competitors in the Trading Agent Competition for Supply Chain Management (TAC SCM).autonomous trading agent;decision processes

Malware Templates for MAlSim

This report describes the methodology of malware templates for MAlSim - Mobile Agent Malware Simulator, a mobile agent framework which aims at simulation of diverse malicious software in computer network of an arbitrary information system. Malware template is a pattern (a 'guide') for implementation of MAlSim agent aiming at simulation of a concrete malware. It indicates the selection and configuration of Java classes (MAlSim agent, one or more behavioural patterns and one or more migration/replication patterns) selected from MAlSim Toolkit.JRC.G.6-Sensors, radar technologies and cybersecurit

Prototypes of productivity tools for the jadescript programming language

Jadescript is an agent-oriented programming language built on top of JADE. So far, the focus of the development of the language was on design choices, on syntax refinements, and on the introduction of expressions and constructs for agent-related abstractions and tasks. In this paper, a proposal to achieve the crucial goal of making Jadescript suitable for professional use is presented. The success of Jadescript, as a solid language to build real-world agent-based software systems, is necessarily related to its effective integration with mainstream development tools. In this paper, some of the productivity tools developed to integrate Jadescript with a mainstream development environment are presented as a way to promote the successful adoption of the language towards the community of JADE users