Paul S. Andrews, Adam T. Sampson, John Markus Bjørndalen, Susan Stepney, Jon Timmis, Douglas N. Warren, Peter H. Welch.
Investigating Patterns for the Process-Oriented Modelling and Simulation of Space in Complex Systems.

ALife XI, Winchester, UK, August 2008 , pp17-24. MIT Press 2008

Abstract:

Complex systems modelling and simulation is becoming increasingly important to numerous disciplines. The CoSMoS project aims to produce a unified infrastructure for modelling and simulating all sorts of complex systems, making use of design patterns and the process-oriented programming model. We present a case study into the modelling of space in complex systems. We describe how two models of space – absolute geometric space and relational network space – can be modelled using process-oriented techniques, and how our models can be refactored to allow efficient, distributed simulation. We identify a number of design, implementation and refactoring patterns that can be used to solve future complex systems modelling problems.

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