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What is SPADES?

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What is SPADES?

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SPADES (System for Parallel Agent Descrete-Event Simulation) is a middleware system for the creation of artificial intelligence agent-based simulations. An agent is a software entity that has a continual sense-think-act cycle interaction with the simulated world. SPADES tracks the computation time used by the agents as a fundamental component of the agent’s behavior. The system handles distribution of the simulation across machines and uses a novel algorithm (tailored to the simulation of agents) for out of order execution of simulation events, as well as being robust to variations in the network and machine load. SPADES is a middleware system. It is designed to handle some of the tricky parts of running a distributed simulation for the aritficial intelligence community without being tied to any one particular simulation.