Multi-Agent Systems and Virtual Reality for Interactive Prototyping

This paper introduces a Virtual Reality platform based on a dynamic multi-agent programming language. These tools have been designed to show that simulating a Multi-Agent System in a virtual environment with dynamic properties can be used for Interactive Prototyping. This kind of prototyping has to be considered when the designed system cannot be described as a whole but as a set of autonous components with many interactions. Due to the fact that these interactions are very complex to model before simulating the system, we propose to let the designer enter inside the system and dynamically build, tune and mend the model. After making out a list of requirements to achieve this goal, we present our tool. Then, an example shows, through a very simple application, what an Interactive Prototyping session looks like