ITEE Ph.D confirmation seminar: Henk Stolk, 02.00PM, Tue 29 Apr 2003

Emergent Models in Hierarchical and Distributed Simulation of Complex Systems

Speaker: Henk Stolk, ITEE

When: 02.00PM, Tuesday 29 Apr 2003

Venue: 78-420

Host: Dr. Kevin Gates

Abstract:

  This thesis explores simulation methods for complex systems
  consisting of many interacting entities. A high level architecture
  for a software environment to simulate complex systems is
  described. The simulation environment mimics a complex system’s
  processes and structure by modeling it as interacting and
  concurrently executing software agents.

  These agents exist at various hierarchical levels. Properties and
  behavior of agents at each level depend on those on a lower level,
  and mechanisms modeling the emergence of higher level properties and
  behavior from lower level properties and behavior are studied.
  
  Some modeling mechanisms are applied to examples of ecosystem
  simulations, where an ecosystem is regarded as a complex system
  consisting of plants, animals and environmental processes.

  Implementation issues are considered, with an emphasis on
  performance in a context of concurrent processes executing on
  different networked machines, with a view to enabling large-scale
  simulations.

Biography:

(biography unavailable)

Type:

Ph.D confirmation

Contact:

Dr. Kevin Gates, seminar host (keg@maths.uq.edu.au)
or Guido Governatori (ITEE seminar co-ordinator) (guido@itee.uq.edu.au)

ITEE seminar web page: http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~seminar

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