Abstract:
Agent technology is one of the Artificial Intelligence techniques best suited
to address a social or biological phenomenon which involves group
dynamics. Moreover, computer simulations are used extensively for studying
artificial intelligence applications. Hence, research paper presents a simulator
that will be helpful for the researchers in medical laboratories and students in
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology to find the shapes in bacterial colonies
for their findings. This research focuses on applying the behavior of swarm
of agents that interact upon each other to achieve a common goal for bacteria
colony shape adaption for Coccus type. The research emerged a computer
simulator using the Pediococcus acidilactici species as the sample. The
simulator formed a circular shape as the final shape of the colony which is
comparable with the laboratory results of given species. The resulted
simulator which is developed using NetLogo agent simulation toolkit
represents each bacterium as a programmable agent. Simulator allows
bacteria to communicate with each other through environment which acts as
the message agent to form the ultimate shape of the colon
