Re: [Swarm-Modelling] Material and Data Flow

[Vitorino RAMOS]

Ok Steve. I see now more precisely what you mean.
Well, here is a reading (not so technical unfornately) but even so, 
describing real cases:

http://www.antoptima.ch/pdf/pr_harvardbusiness_0105.pdf

Take a look for instance on what happened to Southwest Airlines. Bonabeau 
has 3 more articles at Harvard Business Review.
Meanwhile, the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 
(http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS.html) happens to have, from time to time,
technical papers discussing implementations on this research direction.
It's free and online.
Hope this can help you digging more.
Best, Vitorino

~ 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.





At 13:29 09-11-2005, you wrote:
> 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 McCarthy
> >
> > Steve. 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