Modeling and Simulation of Complex Systems: A Framework for Efficient Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation

✍ Scribed by Robert Siegfried (auth.)

• Publisher: Vieweg+Teubner Verlag
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 233
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Robert Siegfried presents a framework for efficient agent-based modeling and simulation of complex systems. He compares different approaches for describing structure and dynamics of agent-based models in detail. Based on this evaluation the author introduces the “General Reference Model for Agent-based Modeling and Simulation” (GRAMS). Furthermore he presents parallel and distributed simulation approaches for execution of agent-based models –from small scale to very large scale. The author shows how agent-based models may be executed by different simulation engines that utilize underlying hardware resources in an optimized fashion.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XIX
Introduction....Pages 1-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Agent-based modeling and simulation....Pages 11-47
Parallel and distributed multi-agent simulation....Pages 49-60
Summary....Pages 61-62
Front Matter....Pages 63-63
The need for a reference model for agent-based modeling and simulation....Pages 65-74
Grams - General Reference Model for Agent-based Modeling and Simulation....Pages 75-110
Summary....Pages 111-113
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
Model partitioning and multi-level parallelization....Pages 117-132
Example implementation of GRAMS....Pages 133-167
Summary....Pages 169-171
Front Matter....Pages 173-173
Conclusions and outlook....Pages 175-179
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
Case studies of the GRAMS reference model....Pages 183-205
Back Matter....Pages 207-227

✦ Subjects

Computing Methodologies; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems