[SwarmFest2004] submission from praveena pepalla and paul box

[Rick Riolo]

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Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 18:54:14 -0600
From: Paul Box <address@hidden>
To: Rick Riolo <address@hidden>
Cc: praveena <address@hidden>

Hi Rick

I apologize for this arriving late.  I thought that it has been sent
out this morning, but it was still in the "outbox" of my mailer this
afternoon.

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Dear Dr.Box,

Please find below the abstract for the Swarm Fest.Please suggest the
changes
to be made.

Title:Integration of multiple temporal,spatial scale processes in a
common
modelling Framework.

Authors:  Praveena Pepalla and Paul Box

Modelling a framework for an independent system helps in understanding
the
behaviour of that particular system.  It is rare that systems exist
independently with out interaction with other systems.  In a dynamic
landscape, what we observe as global behavior is really the interaction
of different systems like physical, hydrological and social systems,
which are defined at a variety of temporal and spatial scales; the
definition of these subsystems can make them incompatible for
integration into a global framework.  Some of these systems are
spatially static.  Others change their locations at every time step
exchanging feedbacks present at that time and location.  Since all of
these systems can be conceived as agents, agent based simulation using
swarm protocals can be used as an integrated platform to predict the
overall impacts of mobile agents on the environment and vice versa.
This model can also be used to predict the effects of inividual agents
and also the aggregate of two or more agents.   An example is presented
for a study in the Luquillo rainforest of Puerto Rico, where Cellular
Automata is used to model landscape  and hydrological processes, and
free-roaming agents are used to depict shrimp migrations and
recreational users in the forests river systems.  Integration of the
various subsystems is implemented through swarms list management
structure, allowing a global world to be assembled at any time step
according to the individual perceptions of any participant, be they a
shrimp, a person, a group of people, a pool, or a reach of a stream.

Regards
Praveena

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