PETWORLD

Interactive browser simulation of the Petworld multi-agent system. Pets build nests, forage for food, and exhibit emergent behavior via the BRAIN5 hierarchical agent architecture.

PETWORLD: An Animal Behavior System Using Rules (1986). SB thesis in EECS proposing a hierarchical agent architecture for animal behavior simulation. (Supervised by Marvin Minsky.)

Modeling Behavior in Petworld (1987). Conference paper from the first Artificial Life workshop, Los Alamos. Describes the BRAIN5 hierarchical agent architecture and emergent behavior.

Pets That Learn (1989). Master's thesis describing the Petworld environment and SHERMAN, a machine learning extension for hierarchical agent systems. (Supervised by Marvin Minsky.)