SMAS 2.0b   A Primer

  8. Global Parameters

The following values are default values for controling some the behavior of the simulator.

*agents* ...............................................................special-variable

list of all active agents

*agent-list* ............................................................special-variable

List of agents to be displayed in the time graph (initially all)

*clock* .................................................................special-variable

Global clock.

*cycle-number* ........................................................special-variable

Scheduler cycle number

*pending-task-number* ...............................................special-variable

Number of tasks not yet completed (initially 0)

*scheduler-execution-mode* .........................................special-variable

Scheduler execution mode: :step, :cycle, :run (initially :cycle)

*scenarios* ............................................................special-variable

Holds all scenario names defined by defscenario (initially empty)

Various delays

*call-for-bids-processing-time* .....................................special-variable

Delay to process a call-for-bids in the contract-net protocol (default: 2)

*cancel-processing-delay* ...........................................special-variable

Time it takes to set up a cancel message (default: 1)

*default-call-for-bids-timeout-delay* ...............................special-variable

time to wait for an answer to call-for-bids(default: 3)

*default-scenario-step-time-out* ....................................special-variable

Time after which a scenario step aborts (default: 20)

*default-scenario-step-timeout* .....................................special-variable

Timeout for executing a scenario step (default: 6)

*dynamic-exit-delay* .................................................special-variable

Delay for processing the last dynamic call (default: 1)

*error-processing-abort* .............................................special-variable

We assume it takes 1 clock cycle to process an abort message.

*error-processing-delay* .............................................special-variable

We assume it takes 2 clock cycle to process a non existing skill message.

*max-repeat-count* ...................................................special-variable

Number of times a message will be repeated after a timeout (default: 2)

*skill-processing-time* ..............................................special-variable

Time to process a given skill (default 5)

*subtask-creation-delay* .............................................special-variable

Time needed to create a subtask (default: 1)

Copyrignt Jean-Paul Barthès@UTC, 1998 Last update, Jan 99