Re: [Swarm-Modelling] Literature on modeling concurrency

[James Marshall]

Hi,
  I have also referred people to an earlier paper on this topic...
        James

Huberman, B. & Glance, N. (1993) Evolutionary games and computer 
simulations. Proc. Nat. Ac. Sci. U.S.A. 90, 16, pp. 7715-7718.

Curtis Smith wrote:
> The following article may be useful.
>
> Schonfisch, B., and A. de Roos. 1999. Synchronous and asynchronous 
> updating in cellular automata. Biosystems. 51(3):123-143.
>
> 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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