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From: | Steven H. Rogers |
Subject: | Re: [Swarm-Modelling] Material and Data Flow |
Date: | Wed, 09 Nov 2005 06:29:09 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) |
G'day Vitorino:I've seen Swarm simulations for ecological, social, and physical processes, but I haven't seen any for manufacturing operations or port facilities, which are often modeled with discrete event simulation systems. The operations I'm interested in modeling is relatively complex with a combination of central and distributed control, various semi-autonomous machines, and humans. Bottlenecks are possible for both material flow and data flow. Experiments with the actual systems, or even subsets, are expensive.
I think Swarm may have some advantages as the behavioral complexity of individual entities/agents increases and the numbers and variety of agents increases. I haven't looked at Pietro Terna's jES in detail yet, but it may be close to what I have in mind. While the operation I'm interested in modeling is not an entire enterprise, it is quite substantial.
Regards, Steve //////////////////// Vitorino RAMOS wrote:
At 04:32 09-11-2005, you wrote:I'm interested in modeling a data intensive manufacturing system where both material and data flows are important. Has Swarm been used in similar applications?Regards, Steve -- Steven H. Rogers, Ph.D., address@hidden Weblog: http://shrogers.com/weblog "He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense." -- John McCarthySteve. Can you be a little more specific. Best, v. ~ v. ramos. http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/,[...] Interactions among many sporuliferous and ubiquitous abstractions may lead to increasing reality [...], Vitorino Ramos, 2001.
-- Steven H. Rogers, Ph.D., address@hidden Weblog: http://shrogers.com/weblog "He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense." -- John McCarthy
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