Section: New Software and Platforms

Lazylav

Lazy lavender

Keywords: Reproducibility - Multi-agent - Simulation

Scientific Description: Lazy lavender aims at supporting mOeX's research on simulating knowledge evolution. It is not a general purpose simulator. However, it features some methodological innovations in term of facilitating publication, recording, and replaying of experiments.

Functional Description: Lazy Lavender is a simulation environment for cultural knowledge evolution, i.e. running randomised experiments with agent adjusting their knowledge while attempting to communicate. It can generate detailed report and data from the experiments and directions to repeat them.

News Of The Year: In 2019, we implemented facilities for dealing with population of agents and designed several synchronisation approaches. This led to seriously refactor the code.

• Participant: Jérôme Euzenat

• Contact: Jérôme Euzenat

• Publications: Crafting ontology alignments from scratch through agent communication - Interaction-based ontology alignment repair with expansion and relaxation - First experiments in cultural alignment repair (extended version)

• URL: http://lazylav.gforge.inria.fr