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 Pheonix 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).

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