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Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
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TY - GEN
T1 - Running agent-based models on a discrete-event simulator
AU - Onggo, B S S
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - One of the main obstacles hindering the use of large-scale agent-based simulation in practice is its scalability. The ability to run realistic and complex agent-based models is desirable to provide empirically and practically useful results. One of the suggested solutions is to run the agent-based models on top of a scalable parallel discrete-event simulation engine. This proposal raises a question whether an equivalent discrete-event model can be built for any agent-based model. This paper proves that an equivalent discrete-event model can be found for any agent-based model that conforms to a given specification. I show that a translator can be built to convert the agent-based model into an equivalent discrete-event model automatically and transparently. The advantage of this approach is that modellers do not need to change their modelling paradigm and at the same time a highly scalable parallel discrete-event simulator can be used to run the model.
AB - One of the main obstacles hindering the use of large-scale agent-based simulation in practice is its scalability. The ability to run realistic and complex agent-based models is desirable to provide empirically and practically useful results. One of the suggested solutions is to run the agent-based models on top of a scalable parallel discrete-event simulation engine. This proposal raises a question whether an equivalent discrete-event model can be built for any agent-based model. This paper proves that an equivalent discrete-event model can be found for any agent-based model that conforms to a given specification. I show that a translator can be built to convert the agent-based model into an equivalent discrete-event model automatically and transparently. The advantage of this approach is that modellers do not need to change their modelling paradigm and at the same time a highly scalable parallel discrete-event simulator can be used to run the model.
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SN - 978-90-77381-57-1
SP - 51
EP - 55
BT - European Simulation and Modelling Conference 2010
PB - Eurosis-ETI
T2 - 24th European Simulation and Modelling Conference (Hasselt, Belgium) - 2010
Y2 - 25 October 2010 through 27 October 2010
ER -