Re: Decentralized Scheduling

[Marcus G. Daniels]

PJ> Since each agent is keeping its own schedule, I don't understand
PJ> how to make all events at time X happen in a random order.

Ok, please take a look at this:

 ftp://ftp.swarm.org/pub/swarm/src/users-contrib/anarchy/repeaters-0.1.tar.gz

Specifically, see the constructor in Repeaters.java which has:
  
  * a ConcurrentGroup customization (with or without randomization)

  * followed by a Schedule type customized to use it

  * followed by a a Swarm configured with that Schedule as a
    synchronization type.

The Swarm tarball below includes some necessary, non-trivial bug fixes
to make the above example work:

 ftp://ftp.swarm.org/pub/swarm/src/testing/swarm-2000-06-26.tar.gz

Boy, if people actually start using these Serious interfaces, I'm
gonna start feeling obligated to get parallelization implemented!  ;-)


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