Tim Hoverd, Susan Stepney.
Environment orientation: an architecture for simulating complex systems.

CoSMoS workshop, York, UK, August 2009 , pp67-82. Luniver Press 2009

Abstract:

A naive implementation of a complex system simulation with its plethora of interacting agents would be to represent those interactions as direct communications between the agents themselves. Considerations of the real world that a complex system inhabits shows that agent interactions are actually mediated by the environment within which they are embedded and which embodies facilities used by the agents. This suggests an "environment oriented" simulation architecture. Here we motivate and describe an abstract software architecture for an environment oriented approach to complex systems simulation, and sketch the implementation of this architecture in a number of different ways.

@inproceedings(SS-CoSMoS09,
  author = "Tim Hoverd and Susan Stepney",
  title = "Environment orientation: an architecture for simulating complex systems",
  pages = "67-82",
  crossref = "CoSMoS09"
)

@proceedings(CoSMoS09,
  editor = "Susan Stepney and Peter Welch and Paul Andrews and Jon Timmis",
  title = "Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on
           Complex Systems Modelling and Simulation",
  booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on
              Complex Systems Modelling and Simulation",
  publisher = "Luniver Press",
  year = 2009
)