Multi-Agent simulation framework for interdisciplinary research in digital ecosystems

The conceptualization and ongoing implementation of a network and service infrastructure for SMEs that bases on biologically inspired similes for service mediation needs thorough simulation and emulation capabilities that accompany that development. Digital ecosystems (DE) are demand-driven self-organising agent environments exhibiting complex behaviour during utilisation and growth. To optimise this infrastructure, the capability of modelling of central DE mechanisms is a key success factor. In this paper the fully distributed evolutionary environment simulator (EvESim) is discussed that enriches the DE infrastructure by simulation and emulation capabilities for the benefit of interdisciplinary research.