Pythagoras ABM

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Pythagoras is an Open_source multi-sided Agent_based_model (ABM) created to support the growth and refinement of Project Albert.

Pythagoras offers a unique set of capabilities in the area of agent-based simulations:
• Incorporates soft rules to distinguish unique agents
• Uses desires to motivate agents into moving and shooting
• Includes the concept of affiliation (established by sidedness, or RGB color value to differentiate agents into members of a unit, friendly agents, neutrals, or enemies
• Allows for behavior-changing events and actions (called triggers) that may be invoked in response to simulation activities
• Retains traditional weapons, sensors, and terrain

[edit] History

Its heritage traces back to Project Albert, an international project dedicated to research in the human aspects of warfare, such as intangibles, co-evolving goals and non-linear relationships.

Pythagoras originally began as a method by which the existing US Marine Corps-provided Archimedes model could be enhanced, modified, or controlled to enable it to run large problem sets on multiple platforms and be analyzed via data farming techniques on the Gilgamesh platform located at the Maui High Performance Computing Center (MHPCC).