Framework for Address Cooperative Extended Transactions

Software · Mon Dec 01 05:00:00 EST 1997

OSTI ID:1230527

Christiansen, John

The Framework for Addressing Cooperative Extended Transactions (FACET) is an object-oriented software framework for building models of complex, cooperative behaviors of agents. it can be used to implement simulation models of societal processes such as the complex interplay of participating individuals and organizations engaged in multiple concurrent transactions in pursuit of their various goals. These transactions can be patterned on, for example, clinical guidelines and procedures, business practices, government and corporate policies, etc. FACET can also address other complex behaviors such as biological life cycles or manufacturing processes. FACET includes generic software objects representing the fundamental classes of agent -- Person and Organization - with mechanisms for resource management, including resolution of conflicting requests for participation and/or use of the agent's resources. The FACET infrastructure supports stochastic behavioral elements and coping mechanisms by which specified special conditions and events can cause an active cooperative process to be preempted, diverting the participants onto appropriate alternative behavioral pathways.

• Short Name / Acronym: FACET; 001467IBMPC00
• Version: 00
• Programming Language(s): Medium: X; OS: Not Specified
• Research Organization: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOD, Office of Joint Chief of Staff
• DOE Contract Number: W-31-109-ENG-38
• OSTI ID: 1230527
• Country of Origin: United States