Laszlo sent the same request out to the NAACSOS list, too. Here's a response that may be interesting to FRIAM-folk.
-Steve > -----Original Message----- > From: Les Gasser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 1:14 PM > To: Laszlo Gulyas > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Distribution / Parallelization of ABM's > > NAACSOS - http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/naacsos/ > Laszlo, below are links to five papers that address various > aspects of these issues, part of a stream of work over about > a 20 year period. > These cover conceptualizations, requirements, approaches, > scaling issues, etc. (Also available through > http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~gasser/papers/). > > Others have also worked in these areas, going back to Lesser > et al.'s work distributing HEARSAY (papers of Lesser & > Fennel; Lesser & Erman); Ed Durfee's MS thesis at UMASS in > the early 1980s on distributing a distributed problem solving > simulator, Dan Corkill's work on parallelizing blackboard > systems at UMASS, early 1990s (others worked on this too). > References to all this are availble via > http://mas.cs.umass.edu/pub/ and it has been quite inspiring > to me personally. More recently there is also Brian Logan > and Georgios Theorodopoulos' work on distributing MAS, > concerning especially dealing with environment models as > points of serialization. > > Hope this helps, > > -- Les > > Les Gasser, Kelvin Kakugawa, Brant Chee and Marc Esteva > "Smooth Scaling Ahead: Progressive MAS Simulation from Single > PCs to Grids" > in Paul Davidsson, Brian Logan, and Keiki Takadama (Eds.) > Multi-Agent and Multi-Agent-Based Simulation. > Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3415, Springer, 2005 > http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~gasser/papers/gasser-etal-mamabs04-final.pdf > > Les Gasser and Kelvin Kakugawa. > "MACE3J: Fast Flexible Distributed Simulation of Large, > Large-Grain Multi-Agent Systems." > In Proceedings of AAMAS-2002. > [Finalist for Best Paper Award at this conference.] > http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~gasser/papers/mace3j-aamas02-pap.pdf > > Les Gasser. > "MAS Infrastructure Definitions, Needs, Prospects," > in Thomas Wagner and Omer Rana, editors, Infrastructure for > Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Scalable Multi-Agent > Systems, Springer-Verlag, 2001 Also appears in ICFAI Journal > of Managerial Economics, 11:2, May, 2004, pp 35-45. > http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~gasser/papers/masidnp-08-with-table.pdf > > Les Gasser. > "Agents and Concurrent Objects." > IEEE Concurrency, 6(4) pp. 74-77&81, October-December, 1998. > http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~gasser/papers/AgentsAndObjects-07.html > > Les Gasser, Carl Braganza, and Nava Herman. > "MACE: A Flexible Testbed for Distributed AI Research" > in Michael N. Huhns, ed. > Distributed Artificial Intelligence > Pitman Publishers, 1987, 119-152. > http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~gasser/papers/gasser-braganza-herman > -mace-a-flexible-testbed-for-dai-research-1987.ps > http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~gasser/papers/gasser-braganza-herman > -mace-a-flexible-testbed-for-dai-research-1987.pdf > > > Laszlo Gulyas wrote: > > NAACSOS - http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/naacsos/ > > [**** Apologies for cross-postings. ****] > > > > Dear Colleagues, > > > > We are compiling a survey on techniques to parallelize agent-based > > simulations. We are interested in both in-run and inter-run > > parallelizations (i.e., when one distributes the agents and > when one > > distributes individual runs in a parameter sweep), albeit I > think, the > > more challenging part is the former. > > > > We are aware that in-run parallelization is a non-trivial task and, > > what's more, it is likely that it cannot be done in general. Our > > approach is trying to collect 'communication templates' > that may make > > distribution / parallelization feasible. E.g., when the model is > > spatial and comminication is (mostly) local, there are > already works to do the job. > > However, we foresee other cases when the problem can be solved. > > > > As I said, we are now compiling a survey. We are aware of a few > > publications and threads at various lists, but I'd like to > ask you all > > to send me references to such works if you know about them. > (If you do > > not have references, but have ideas that you are ready to share, > > please, do not hesitate either.) Thank you all in advance! > > > > For your information, our ultimate goal is to be able to > run ABM's on > > the grid -- which adds another layer of complication, namely the > > uncertainity of resources and slower communication. But we > will deal with that later! > > ;-) > > > > Best regards, > > > > Laszlo Gulyas (aka Gulya) > The NAACSOS mailing list is a service of NAACSOS, the North > American Association for Computational and Organizational > Science (http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/naacsos/). > To remove yourself from this mailing list, send an email to > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the following command > in the body of your email message: > unsubscribe naacsos-list > - > > ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
