SCOP Framework

SCOP Framework allows for building, experimenting and deploying multi-agent systems in Java!

With MAGE, just a few lines of code is all you need to start building agents like an expert.

What is SCOP Framework?

MAGE (Multi-AGent Experimentation) is an platform for constructing agent-based models, simulations, and complete agent-based applications. The goal of MAGE is to blend cutting-edge software engineering techniques with agent-based modeling in order to quickly develop prototypes of research and industrial cases, and assess their practicality in a real-world setting.

What is it good for?

SCOP Framework …

• is especially advantageous for creating models of open, distributed and intelligent systems that evolve over time.
• allows developers to create models in their own environment, while also giving them the ability to evaluate their algorithms more accurately and optimize performance. By mimicking the system’s dynamics at an individual agent level, the consequences of algorithms’ decisions in different situations can be studied and investigated thoroughly.
• provides comprehensive documentation and tutorials. It also contains a selection of ready to run and reuse simulations that can be utilized and modified. Currently, these simulations cover topics such as Blockchain Systems, Cellular Automata, Federated Learning, and Internet of Things (IoT).
• is compatible with all major operating systems like MacOS, Windows, and Linux, as it is designed to run on a Java (17 or later) virtual machine. It can be used as a desktop application or through a command line interface.

What is it not good for?

SCOP Framework …

• is not a Machine Learning (ML) platform. However, it is possible to integrate seamlessly libraries like Deep Java Library (DJL) to design models where agents use ML. See, for example, the Federated Learning example in the MAGE model library.

What is it not yet good for?

SCOP Framework …

• does not provide yet the full mechanism for running Reinforcement Learning (RL) experiments.

Where should you go next?

As a next step, you can see:

• Getting Started: Get started with SCOP Framework
• Examples: Check out some example code!