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AMP/UserGuide/Escape/Overview
Overview
Escape is the exemplar ABM environment supported by AMP. The main purpose of the Escape project -- apart from the obvious goal of providing a nice Eclipse hosted ABM toolkit -- is to demonstrate how any arbitrary agent modeling framework can be integrated within the AMP environment. A cool aspect of this is that AMP has no dependencies on Escape, but also that the underlying ABM modeling framework for Escape has no dependencies on AMP -- instead Escape simply provides the runtime glue between AMP and the ABM framework. The underlying ABM framework uses the Ascape API, an API that first began development more than ten years ago and that has not been modified at all in order for it to work within the AMP environment.
(Well, not quite.. Ascape was refactored into separate non-UI core and a Swing UI projects. This involved a bit of repackaging, but was really straightforward as Ascape follows a strict MVC architecture. Note that currently Escape is bulkier than it will eventually be -- over time we will be generalizing more aspects of Escape into the AMP AXF and AGF components.)