Multiple Event Stream Simulator
Multiple Event Stream Simulator
The Multiple Event Stream Simulator (MESS) is a software package
written in Common Lisp, for general discrete event simulation. MESS is
designed to be a substrate for experiments in real-time planning,
where "real-time" means a simulation in which the thinking of one or
more agents occurs concurrently with the ongoing simulation, and
therefore the duration of their thinking must be modeled. It would
perhaps be more accurate to call it "time-pressured planning." MESS
itself is domain-independent, providing only the means to execute
events, which move the simulation from state to state.
About the Author
MESS is part of the doctoral thesis work of Scott D.
Anderson. For additional background reading Scott has a research
statement on simulation and information about related
work.
Other Work
MESS is also being used to reimplement the Phoenix
system.
Sources
The sources for MESS are accessible via FTP at ftp://ftp.cs.umass.edu/pub/eksl/mess. Please
look at the README file. A preliminary
version of a user manual is also available (and is included in with
the MESS sources).
Last modified: Monday, August 14, 1997 at 18:31 EDT