Fundamentals and architectures of Complex Distributed Systems

Tianfield, Huaglory

doi:10.1109/icsmc.2008.4811666

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“…Although some scalable, complex multi-agent systems have been proposed [35], these proposals are exclusively focused on the software architecture, forgetting the underlying computer architecture (the actual implementation of the computer and the application executing on it [13,29]). As a result, important features like inter-process communications, workload balancing or network latencies are not taken into account, seriously limiting the performance of this applications.…”

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A new system architecture for crowd simulation

Lozano

Morillo

Orduña

et al. 2009

Journal of Network and Computer Applications

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Crowd simulation requires both rendering visually plausible images and managing the behavior of autonomous agents. Therefore, these applications need an efficient design that allow them to simultaneously tackle these two requirements. Although several proposals have focused on the software architectures for these systems, no proposals have focused on the computer systems supporting them.In this paper, we analyze the computer architectures used in the literature to support virtual environments. Also, we propose a distributed computer architecture efficient enough to support simulations of thousand of autonomous agents.This proposal consists of a cluster of interconnected computers in order to improve flexibility and robustness, as well as a hierarchical software architecture that efficiently provides consistency. Performance evaluation results show that the trade-off between flexibility and consistency allows to efficiently manage thousands of autonomous agents. Therefore, this network-based system architecture can provide the required scalability for large-scale crowd simulations.

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A new system architecture for crowd simulation

Lozano

Morillo

Orduña

et al. 2009

Journal of Network and Computer Applications

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A Verification Method for MASOES

Perozo

Aguilar

Terán

et al. 2013

IEEE Trans. Cybern.

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MASOES is a 3agent architecture for designing and modeling self-organizing and emergent systems. This architecture describes the elements, relationships, and mechanisms, both at the individual and the collective levels, that favor the analysis of the self-organizing and emergent phenomenon without mathematically modeling the system. In this paper, a method is proposed for verifying MASOES from the point of view of design in order to study the self-organizing and emergent behaviors of the modeled systems. The verification criteria are set according to what is proposed in MASOES for modeling self-organizing and emerging systems and the principles of the wisdom of crowd paradigm and the fuzzy cognitive map (FCM) theory. The verification method for MASOES has been implemented in a tool called FCM Designer and has been tested to model a community of free software developers that works under the bazaar style as well as a Wikipedia community in order to study their behavior and determine their self-organizing and emergent capacities.

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Fundamentals and architectures of Complex Distributed Systems

Cited by 2 publications

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A new system architecture for crowd simulation

A new system architecture for crowd simulation

A Verification Method for MASOES

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