Akira Takeshita (1940–2009)

AKIRA: a Framework for MABS

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 level of complexity (e.g. reactive, deliberative, layered). Here we describe the main architectural fea...

Bacteriol . Akira Ishihama and Kazuei Igarashi

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 fe...

Implementing a Society of Functions in AKIRA

AKIRA is an open-source framework for cognitive and sociocognitive modeling and simulations, that couples the strength of solid design and implementation with the flexibility of an “open” platform, allowing to design and implement a number of different agent architectures and to test them in common scenarios. Here we describe the main components of the framework, that follows the Pandemonium me...

Schema-Based Design and the AKIRA Schema Language: An Overview

We present a theoretical analysis of schema-based design (SBD), a methodology for designing autonomous agents architectures. We also provide an overview of the AKIRA Schema Language (AKSL), which permits to design schema-based architectures for anticipatory behavior experiments and simulations. Several simulations using AKSL are reviewed, highlighting the relations between pragmatic and epistem...