Designing and Implementing MABS in AKIRA

Here we present AKIRA, a framework for Agent-based cognitive and social simulations. AKIRA is an open-source project, currently developed mainly at ISTC-CNR, that exploits state-of-the-art techniques and tools. It gives to the programmer a number of facilities for building Agents at different levels of complexity (e.g. reactive, deliberative, layered). Here we describe the main architectural features (i.e. Hybridism of the Agents and the Energy Model) and the theoretical assumptions that motivate it. We also present some simulations.