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* 1. What is your last name (family name)?

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* 2. What is your first name?

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* 3. General:  A number of papers discussed agent based simulations,  discuss in one or two paragraphs what is an agent?

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* 4. Multi-Robot Biology Paper:
(a) What is an executable model? (2-4 sentences)
(b) What do the authors use to represent an executable model of behavior? (and how does it work? is it effective?)  (2-3 paragraphs).

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* 5. JiST: According to the author of the JiST paper
(a) What are three standard approaches
in developing a simulation platforms?  (try to to think of an example of each approach, for this question you may use google).
(b) Which approach did JiST take? (was it a good choice)

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* 6. Swarm Paper: What is a swarm in the Swarm Paper?
how is it effective (and what are limitations of this approach).

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* 7. MASON: What snapshots are “check pointed” in MASON and how can researchers use these snapshots, give at least 2 example uses).

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* 8. SASSY vs. SPADES: How does SASSY differ from SPADES? (give at least 4 differences).

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* 9. RePast: What was the original purpose (or contribution) of
RePast (Why did they implement RePast)? How does RePast differ from Swarm?

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