Ethos: A Mas Framework For Modelling Human

Abstract

We present a framework for a Multi-Agent System (MAS) devised to support the modelling and simulation of agent-based models of human social behavior and culture change. We set forth its main abstractions, and test the usefulness and generality of the framework by describing how two previously published models from the literature have been re-implemented in it. We argue that our framework provides features that simplify the modelling process of a wide range of models of human social behavior, beyond what current MAS accomplish