Experimental Basis
for Informatics and Social Sciences

Welcome to the EBISS project!

EBISS is a multi-disciplinary, open, collaborative project aimed at investigating social problems by means of computational modeling and social simulations. During the past four years we have been developing SARA, a multi-agent gaming simulation platform providing for easy construction of simulations and gamings.

We believe that in order to have a break-through in the difficult task of understanding real-world complex social problems, we need to gather researchers and experts with different backgrounds not only in discussion forums, but in a tighter cooperative task of building and sharing common experimental platforms.

Based on this belief, we are now releasing the first beta version of SARA for a wider audience based on the open source concept. We want people to use SARA platform for a diversity of experiments and reporting back their comments and bug-reports. We also encourage developers to contribute bug-fixes, gaming objects (the building-blocks to be reused in the construction of new simulation gamings), and sample gamings and simulations.

SARA (= Simulation and Analysis with Reflective Agents) is a multi-agent gaming simulation platform which provides for easy construction and development of gamings. The simulation gamings built on SARA can be played over the network. SARA runs in any environment that runs Java.

Documents

• Guides
  • A Brief Introduction to SARA
  • Gaming Guide (for players and operators)
  • Designers' Guide (for gaming designers)
  • Installation
• SARA Language Reference Manual
  • Language Core
  • Gaming Library
• SARA Programming Tutorial (in preparation)
• How to contribute your source code
• FAQ
  

Resources & Archives

• CVS Site: Access to the on going development repository. For developers.
• Download.
  • sara-1.0b1. [compressed tar-gzip approx. 250KB]
    
    • HTTP: http://www.ebiss.org/archive/sara/sara-1.0b1.tgz
  • Contributed gaming packages.
    • Nuclear Power Plant Gaming

Mailing-Lists

• Subscribe to the mailing-lists:
  • sara-users: discussions in English.
  • sara-users-jp: discussions in Japanese.
• Mailing-list Archives (in preparation)

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Last modified: Mon May 10 17:05:40 JST 1999

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