Methodologies and Infrastructures for Agent Society Simulation: Mapping PASSI and RoleX

Today’s development of agent applicationsin general, but in particular related to society simulation, presents two aspects thatare separated by a gap: agent methodologies and agent infrastructures. On the onehand, methodologies support the agent development in its first phases—mainly analysis and design—while infrastructures areclearly focused on the implementation anddeployment. Unfortunately, there are fewconnections between them, leading to fragmented solutions. In this paper, we proposeto bridge this gap by means of meta-models,and we show how the PASSI methodologyand the RoleX infrastructure can be connected by following our approach.