LARA -

Manage heterogeneous agents and their capabilities

LARA, also known as Lightweight Architecture, is a lightweight agent architecture which is intended for the simulation of citizens’ decision making in the arena of policy modeling. Being a Java library that integrates well with existing ABM frameworks such as Repast Simphony, LARA fills a gap between such frameworks with no built-in psychological foundations and full-fledged cognitive architectures. Its components of perception, memory, preprocessor, decision-making, and postprocessor interact via interfaces and thus, the implementation of each one can be adapted or replaced independently. for boundedly Rational Agents is a reliable framework that helps users to easily handle high numbers of heterogeneous agents.

With the help of LARA you have the possibility to fill the gap between the frameworks because of the prefabricated components of an agent's decision such as memory or perception.