Re: [Swarm-Modelling] Literature on modeling concurrency

[Russell Standish]

There's a paper by Cornforth et al. (2002), Proceedings ALife VIII
(MIT Press), p28 "Do Artificial Ants March in Step? Ordered
Asynchronous Processes and Modularity in Biological Systems", which
deals with this topic wrt Cellular Automata. My impression is that
this issue hasn't been studied much.

The ALife VIII proceedings is online at
http://parallel.hpc.unsw.edu.au/complex/alife8/proceedings.html.

                                                Cheers

On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 04:26:23PM -0800, Steve Railsback wrote:
> Does anyone know of useful, citable literature on the theory/concepts of 
>  scheduling concurrent events in simulation models?
> 
> Much of Swarm's guts is about specifying the order in which actions are 
> executed, when the underlying assumption of time-step models is that all 
> the actions occur concurrently each step. What are different ways to 
> schedule concurrent events and what are their consequences? I want to 
> know where I can send people to get smart on such problems.
> 
> I realize there are shelves-full of books on simulation, but the handful 
> I have looked at do not seem to be helpful on this topic. (Some of them 
> do not include the word "schedule" in their index.)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Steve
> 
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